Timing and mechanism of late-Pleistocene calcite vein formation across the Dead Sea Fault Zone, northern Israel

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 36, Issue , 2012, Pages 43-54

  Nuriel, Perach ^a   Weinberger, Ram ^b   Rosenbaum, Gideon ^a   Golding, Suzanne D ^a   Zhao, Jian Xin ^a   Tonguc Uysal, I ^a   Bar Matthews, Miryam ^b   Gross, Michael R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcite veins; Carbon isotopes; Dead Sea Fault; Oxygen isotopes; U Th dating

Indexed keywords

CALCITE VEINS; CARBON ISOTOPES; DEAD SEA; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; U-TH DATING;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CARBONATE MINERALS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); YTTRIUM;

CALCITE;

CALCITE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EMPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PARTITIONING; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RARE EARTH ELEMENT; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRANSPRESSION; URANIUM SERIES DATING; VEIN (GEOLOGY); YTTRIUM;

DEAD SEA; ISRAEL;

EID: 84862814755     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2011.12.010     Document Type: Article

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