Crustal deformation along the Dead Sea Transform and the Carmel Fault inferred from 12 years of GPS measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Sadeh, M ^a,b,c   Hamiel, Y ^b   Ziv, A ^a,c   Bock, Y ^d   Fang, P ^d   Wdowinski, S ^e  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; ARABIAN PLATE; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DISLOCATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GPS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PLATE MOTION; SLIP RATE; TRANSFORM;

ARAVA VALLEY; DEAD SEA; EGYPT; JERICHO; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; OCCUPIED TERRITORIES; SINAI; WEST BANK;

EID: 84865514474     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JB009241     Document Type: Article

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