Timing of relay ramp growth and normal fault linkage, Upper Galilee, northern Israel

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Matmon, A ^a   Katz, O ^b   Shaar, R ^a   Ron, H ^a   Porat, N ^b   Agnon, A ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF REPOSE; BOUNDARY FAULTS; BOUNDING FAULTS; NORMAL FAULTS; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; RELAY RAMPS;

DEFORMATION; LUMINESCENCE;

FAULTING;

DEFORMATION; FOLD; MONOCLINE; NORMAL FAULT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC WEDGE;

GALILEE; ISRAEL; NORTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 84860112818     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002510     Document Type: Article

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