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F. Gomez, T. Nemer, C. Tabet, M. Khawlie, M. Meghraoui, and M. Barazangi
Strain partitioning of active transpression within the Lebanese restraining bend of the Dead Sea Fault (Lebanon and SW Syria) (in Tectonics of strike-slip restraining and releasing bends)
Geological Society Special Publications (2007), 290 285-303

Index Terms/Descriptors:
active faults; Asia; basement; Cenozoic; continental crust; crust; crustal shortening; crustal thickening; Dead Sea Rift; deformation; faults; fold belts; geodesy; geometry; geomorphology; Global Positioning System; kinematics; Lebanon; Middle East; models; movement; neotectonics; Palmyrides; plate tectonics; Rachaya Fault; Ramkine Island; restraining bends; rotation; Roum Fault; sea-level changes; segmentation; Serghaya Fault; shorelines; splay faults; strain; strike-slip faults; Syria; systems; tectonics; transfer faults; transform faults; transpression; Tripoli Lebanon; uplifts; Yammouneh Fault

Latitude & Longitude:
N32°30'00" - N35°00'00" and E34°45'00" - E37°30'00" (Search for maps and images at Alexandria Digital Library)

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