Shallow lithological structure across the Dead Sea Transform derived from geophysical experiments

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Stankiewicz, J ^a   Munoz G ^a   Ritter, O ^a   Bedrosian, P A ^b   Ryberg, T ^a   Weckmann, U ^a   Weber, M ^a,c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

magnetotellurics; seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MAGNETOTELLURICS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION; ALUMINUM; LITHOLOGY;

DEAD SEA; FAULT ZONE; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH PROBABILITY; IMPERMEABLE BARRIERS; JOINT INTERPRETATION; P-WAVE VELOCITY; PARAMETER SPACES; PRECAMBRIAN BASEMENT; RESISTIVITY VALUES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SPATIAL DOMAINS; STATISTICAL CORRELATION; STUDY AREAS; TWO PARAMETER; RESISTIVITY MODELING;

LITHOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FAULT ZONE; GEOPHYSICS; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

DEAD SEA RIFT;

EID: 79960763092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003678     Document Type: Article

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