Intrabasin paleoearthquake and quiescence correlation of the late Holocene Dead Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Kagan, Elisa ^a,b   Stein, Mordechai ^b   Agnon, Amotz ^a   Neumann, Frank ^c,d,e  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LIMNOLOGY; OUTCROP; PALEOSEISMICITY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMITE;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 79955449342     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007452     Document Type: Article

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