The Red Sea - New insights from recent geophysical studies and the connection to the Dead Sea fault

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue , 2012, Pages 96-110

  Lazar, Michael ^a   Ben Avraham, Zvi ^a,b   Garfunkel, Zvi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea fault; Geophysics; Gravity; Gulf of Aqaba Elat; Magnetics; Red Sea; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT ZONE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITY; NORMAL FAULT; OBLIQUE FAULT; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRANSITION ZONE; VOLCANISM;

AFAR; ARABIAN PENINSULA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

MYA;

EID: 84860998210     PISSN: 1464343X     EISSN: 18791956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2012.04.001     Document Type: Review

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