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Dead Sea Transform Fault System: Reviews

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Editors:
  1. Zvi Garfunkel

    1. The Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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  2. Zvi Ben-Avraham

    1. Department of Geophysical, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  3. Elisa Kagan

    1. Department of Geophysical, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  • Interdisciplinary study of a major plate boundary
  • International authorship
  • Rich in quantitative data and imagery

Part of the book series: Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences (MASE, volume 6)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Geophysical Studies of the Crustal Structure Along the Southern Dead Sea Fault

    • Zvi Ben-Avraham
    Pages 1-27

  3. Geophysical Studies of the Lithosphere Along the Dead Sea Transform

    • Michael Weber, Khalil Abu-Ayyash, Zvi Ben-Avraham, Sungchan Choi, Jaser Darwish, Radwan El-Kelani et al.
    Pages 29-52

  4. The Seismogenic Thickness in the Dead Sea Area

    • Freddy Aldersons, Zvi Ben-Avraham
    Pages 53-89

  5. The Dead Sea Transform and the Volcanism in Northwestern Arabia

    • Yishai Weinstein, Zvi Garfunkel
    Pages 91-108

  6. Lateral Motion and Deformation Along the Dead Sea Transform

    • Zvi Garfunkel
    Pages 109-150

  7. Pleistocene Strain Partitioning During Transpression Along the Dead Sea Transform, Metulla Saddle, Northern Israel

    • Ram Weinberger
    Pages 151-182

  8. Review of On-Fault Palaeoseismic Studies Along the Dead Sea Fault

    • Shmuel Marco, Yann Klinger
    Pages 183-205

  9. Pre-Instrumental Earthquakes Along the Dead Sea Rift

    • Amotz Agnon
    Pages 207-261

  10. Instrumental Data on the Seismic Activity Along the Dead Sea Transform

    • Abraham Hofstetter, Catherine Dorbath, Louis Dorbath
    Pages 263-278

  11. The Evolution of Neogene-Quaternary Water-Bodies in the Dead Sea Rift Valley

    • Mordechai Stein
    Pages 279-316

  12. The Story of Saline Water in the Dead Sea Rift – The Role of Runoff and Relative Humidity

    • Abraham Starinsky, Amitai Katz
    Pages 317-353

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 355-359
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About this book

The Dead Sea transform is an active plate boundary connecting the Red Sea seafloor spreading system to the Arabian-Eurasian continental collision zone. Its geology and geophysics provide a natural laboratory for investigation of the surficial, crustal and mantle processes occurring along transtensional and transpressional transform fault domains on a lithospheric scale and related to continental breakup. There have been many detailed and disciplinary studies of the Dead Sea transform fault zone during the last 20 years and this book brings them together.

This book is an updated comprehensive coverage of the knowledge, based on recent studies of the tectonics, structure, geophysics, volcanism, active tectonics, sedimentology and paleo and modern climate of the Dead Sea transform fault zone. It puts together all this new information and knowledge in a coherent fashion.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Zvi Garfunkel

  • Department of Geophysical, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Zvi Ben-Avraham, Elisa Kagan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dead Sea Transform Fault System: Reviews

  • Editors: Zvi Garfunkel, Zvi Ben-Avraham, Elisa Kagan

  • Series Title: Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8872-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8871-7Published: 22 July 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0514-9Published: 02 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8872-4Published: 03 July 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1876-1682

  • Series E-ISSN: 1876-1690

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 359

  • Number of Illustrations: 52 b/w illustrations, 86 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Structural Geology, Geochemistry

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