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2012

  • Weber M., Alasonati Tašárová, Z., Abu-Ayyash, K., Ben-Avraham, Z., Choi, S., Darwish, J., El-Kelani, R., Garfunkel, Z., Götze, H.J., Grünthal, G., Hofstetter, A., Kesten, D., Mechie, J., Meyer, U., Mohsen, A., Paschke, M., Petrunin, A., Ryberg, T., Sobolev, S.V., Stiller, M., and the DESERT and DESIRE Groups, 2012, Results of geophysical studies across the Dead Sea Transform: The Arava/Araba Valley and the Dead Sea Basin. Isr. J. Earth Sci.; 58: 147–161, doi: 10.1560/IJES.58.3-4.147


2011

  • Stankiewicz, J., Muñoz, G., Ritter, O., Bedrosian, P., Ryberg, T., Weckmann, U.; Weber, M. (2011): Shallow lithological structure across the Dead Sea Transform derived from geophysical experiments. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems (G3), doi:10.1029/2011GC003678, pdf


2010

  • Weber, M., Abu-Ayyash, K., Abueladas, A., Agnon, A., Alasonati Tasárová, Z., Al-Zubi, H., Babeyko, A., Bartov, Y., Bauer, K., Becken, M., Bedrosian, P.A., Ben-Avraham, Z., Bock, G., Bohnhoff, M., Bribach, J., Dulski, P., Ebbing, J., El-Kelani, R., Förster, A., Förster, H.-J., Frieslander, U., Garfunkel, Z., Goetze, H.J., Haak, V., Haberland, C., Hassouneh, M., Helwig, S., Hofstetter, A., Hoffmann-Rothe, A., Jäckel, K.H., Janssen, C., Jaser, D., Kesten, D., Khatib, M., Kind, R., Koch, O., Koulakov, I., Laske, G., Maercklin, N., Masarweh, R., Masri, A., Matar, A., Mechie, J., Meqbel, N., Plessen, B., Möller, P., Mohsen, A., Oberhänsli, R., Oreshin, S., Petrunin, A., Qabbani, I., Rabba, I., Ritter, O., Romer, R.L., Rümpker, G., Rybakov, M., Ryberg, T., Saul, J., Scherbaum, F., Schmidt, S., Schulze, A., Sobolev, S.V., Stiller, M., Stromeyer, D., Tarawneh, K., Trela, C., Weckmann, U., Wetzel, U. and Wylegalla, K., 2010. Correction to "Anatomy of the Dead Sea Transform from lithospheric to microscopic scale. Rev. Geophys., 48, RG1003, doi:10.1029/2010RG000325


2009

  • Weber, M., Abu-Ayyash, K., Abueladas, A., Agnon, A., Alasonati Tasárová, Z., Al-Zubi, H., Babeyko, A., Bartov, Y., Bauer, K., Becken, M., Bedrosian, P.A., Ben-Avraham, Z., Bock, G., Bohnhoff, M., Bribach, J., Dulski, P., Ebbing, J., El-Kelani, R., Förster, A., Förster, H.-J., Frieslander, U., Garfunkel, Z., Goetze, H.J., Haak, V., Haberland, C., Hassouneh, M., Helwig, S., Hofstetter, A., Hoffmann-Rothe, A., Jäckel, K.H., Janssen, C., Jaser, D., Kesten, D., Khatib, M., Kind, R., Koch, O., Koulakov, I., Laske, G., Maercklin, N., Masarweh, R., Masri, A., Matar, A., Mechie, J., Meqbel, N., Plessen, B., Möller, P., Mohsen, A., Oberhänsli, R., Oreshin, S., Petrunin, A., Qabbani, I., Rabba, I., Ritter, O., Romer, R.L., Rümpker, G., Rybakov, M., Ryberg, T., Saul, J., Scherbaum, F., Schmidt, S., Schulze, A., Sobolev, S.V., Stiller, M., Stromeyer, D., Tarawneh, K., Trela, C., Weckmann, U., Wetzel, U. and Wylegalla, K., 2009. DESERT Dead Sea Rift Transect: an interdisciplinary research project to study the Dead Sea Transform. STR 09/08, pdf
  • Weber, M., Abu-Ayyash, K., Abueladas, A., Agnon, A., Alasonati Tasárová, Z., Al-Zubi, H., Babeyko, A., Bartov, Y., Bauer, K., Becken, M., Bedrosian, P.A., Ben-Avraham, Z., Bock, G., Bohnhoff, M., Bribach, J., Dulski, P., Ebbing, J., El-Kelani, R., Förster, A., Förster, H.-J., Frieslander, U., Garfunkel, Z., Goetze, H.J., Haak, V., Haberland, C., Hassouneh, M., Helwig, S., Hofstetter, A., Hoffmann-Rothe, A., Jäckel, K.H., Janssen, C., Jaser, D., Kesten, D., Khatib, M., Kind, R., Koch, O., Koulakov, I., Laske, G., Maercklin, N., Masarweh, R., Masri, A., Matar, A., Mechie, J., Meqbel, N., Plessen, B., Möller, P., Mohsen, A., Oberhänsli, R., Oreshin, S., Petrunin, A., Qabbani, I., Rabba, I., Ritter, O., Romer, R.L., Rümpker, G., Rybakov, M., Ryberg, T., Saul, J., Scherbaum, F., Schmidt, S., Schulze, A., Sobolev, S.V., Stiller, M., Stromeyer, D., Tarawneh, K., Trela, C., Weckmann, U., Wetzel, U. and Wylegalla, K., 2009. Anatomy of the Dead Sea Transform from lithospheric to microscopic scale. Rev. Geophys., 47, RG2002, doi:10.1029/2008RG000264, pdf


2008

  • Laske, G., Weber, M., and the DESERT Working Group (2008):  Lithosphere structure across the Dead Sea Transform as constrained by Rayleigh waves observed during the DESERT experiment . Geophys. Journ. Int., 173, (2), 593-610, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03749.x


2007

  • Bedrosian, P. A., Maercklin, N., Weckmann, U., Bartov, Y., Ryberg, T. and Ritter, O. (2007): Lithology-derived structure classification from the joint interpretation of magnetotelluric and seismic models. Geophys. Journ. Int., doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03440.x
  • Förster, A., Förster, H.-J., Masarweh, R., Masri, A., Tarawneh, K. and DESERT GROUP (2007): The surface heat flow of the Arabian Shield in Jordan. Journ. of Asian Earth Sciences, 30, 271-284, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2006.09.002
  • Haberland, Ch., Maercklin, N., Kesten, D., Ryberg, T., Janssen, Ch., Agnon, A., Weber, M., Schulze, A., Qabbani, I. and El–Kelani, R. (2007): Shallow architecture of the Wadi Araba fault (Dead Sea Transform) from high–resolution seismic investigations. Tectonophys., 432, 37 – 50, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.12.006., pdf
  • Janssen, C., Hoffmann-Rothe, A.,Bohnhoff, M., Wetzel,H.-U., Matar, A., Khatib, M. and the DESERT Research Group (2007): Different styles of faulting deformation along the Dead Sea Transform and possible consequences for the recurrence of major earthquakes, Journ. of Geodynamics, pdf
  • Janssen, C., Romer, R. L., Plessen, B., Naumann, R., Hoffmann-Rothe, A., Matar, A. and the DESERT Research Group (2007): Contrasting fluid regimes along the Dead Sea Transform, Geofluids, 7, 275-291, doi: 10.1111/j.1468-8123.2007.00185.x
  • Kesten, D., Weber, M., Haberland, Ch., Janssen, Ch., Agnon, A., Bartov, Y., Rabba, I. and the DESERT Group (2007): Combining satellite and seismic images to analyse the shallow structure of the Dead Sea Transform near the DESERT transect, Int. Journ. of Earth Sci., doi: 10.1007/s00531-006-0168-5
  • Ryberg, T., Weber, M., Garfunkel, Z. and Bartov, Y. (2007): The shallow velocity structure across the Dead Sea Transform fault, Arava Valley, from seismic data. Journ. of Geophys. Res.,112, doi: 10.1029/2006JB004563


2006

  • Förster, H.-J. (2006): Composition and origin of intermediate solid solutions in the system thorite-xenotime-zircon-coffinite, Lithos., doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2005.08.003
  • Götze, H.-J., El-Kelani, R., Schmidt, S., Rybakov, M., Hassouneh, M., Förster, H.-J, Ebbing, J. and DESERT Group (2006): Integrated 3-D density modelling and segmentation of the Dead Sea Transform (DST), Int. J. of Earth Sci. (Geologische Rundschau),
  • Janssen, C., Bohnhoff, M., Hoffmann-Rothe, A., Wetzel, U., Matar, A., Khatib, A. and the DESERT Research Group (2006): Different styles of faulting deformation along the DEAD Sea Transform, Journ. of Geodynamics,
  • Koulakov, I., Sobolev, S., Weber, M., Oreshin, S., Wylegalla, K. and Hofstetter, R. (2006): Teleseismic tomography reveals no signature of the Dead Sea Transform in the upper mantle structure, EPSL, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.09.039
  • Koulakov, I. and Sobolev, S. (2006): Moho depth and three-dimensional P and S structure of the crust and uppermost mantle in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East derived from tomographic inversion of local ISC data, Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02791.x
  • Mohsen, A., Kind, R., Sobolev S. V., Weber, M. and the DESERT Group (2006): Thickness of the lithosphere east of the Dead Sea Transform. Geophys. Journ. Int., doi:10.1111/j.1365–246X.2006.03185.x
  • Petrunin, A. and Sobolev, S. V. (2006): What controls thickness of sediments and lithospheric deformation at a pull–apart basin? Geology, 34, 5, 389 – 392, doi: 10.1130/G22158.1
  • Tašárová, S., Götze, H.–J., El–Kelani, R., Ebbing, J., Hassouneh, M. and DESERT Group (2006): Small–scale gravity modeling of upper–crustal structures in the Araba Valley along the Dead Sea Transform. Geochem., Geophys., Geosys., Vol. 7, No. 9, doi: 10.1029/2005GC001229


2005

  • Janssen, Ch., Romer, R. L., Hoffmann-Rothe, A., Mingram, B., Dulski, P., Möller, P., Al-Zubi, H. and DESERT Group (2005): The role of fluids in faulting deformation: a case study from the Dead Sea Transform (Jordan), Int. J. Earth Sci., 94, 243-255, doi: 10.1007/s00531-004-0461-0
  • Maercklin, N., Bedrosian, P. A., Haberland, Ch., Ritter, O., Ryberg, T., Weber, M. and Weckmann, U. (2005): Characterizing a large shear-zone with seismic and magnetotelluric methods: The case of the Dead Sea Transform. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L15303, doi: 10.1029/2005GL022724
  • Mechie, J., Abu-Ayyash, K., Ben-Avraham, Z., El-Kelani, R., Mohsen, A., Rümpker, G., Saul, J. and Weber, M. (2005): Crustal shear velocity structure across the Dead Sea Transform from two-dimensional modelling of DESERT project explosion seismic data. Geophys. Journ. Int., 160, 910 – 924, pdf , doi:  10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02526.x. 
  • Mohsen, A., Hofstetter, R., Bock, G., Kind, R., Weber, M., Wylegalla, K., Rümpker, G. and the DESERT Group (2005): A receiver function study across the Dead Sea Transform. Geophys. Journ. Int., 160, 948 – 960, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02534.x., pdf
  • Ritter, O., Hoffmann-Rothe, A., Bedrosian, P. A., Weckmann, U. and Haak, V. (2005): Electrical conductivity images of active and fossil fault zones. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 245, 165 – 186, GFZpublic
  • Ryberg, T.,Rümpker, G., Haberland, Ch., Stromeyer, D. and Weber, M. (2005): Simultaneous inversion of shear wave splitting observations from seismic arrays, Journ.. Geophys. Res., 110, doi: 10.1029/2004JB003303.
  • Sobolev, S. V., Petrunin, A., Garfunkel, Z., Babeyko, A. Y. and DESERT Group (2005): Thermo-Mechanical Model of the Dead Sea Transform. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 238, 78-95, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.06.058
  • Weckmann, U., Magunia, A. and Ritter, O. (2005): Effective noise separation for magnetotelluric single site data processing using a frequency domain selection scheme, Geophys. J. Int., 161, 635 - 652., doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02621.x


2004

  • DESERT Group: Weber, M., Abu-Ayyash, K., Abueladas, A., Agnon, A., Al-Amoush, H., Babeyko, A., Bartov, Y., Baumann, M., Ben-Avraham, Z., Bock, G., Bribach, J., El-Kelani, R., Förster, A., Förster, H.-J., Frieslander, U., Garfunkel, Z., Grunewald, S., Götze, H.-J., Haak, V., Haberland, Ch., Hassouneh, M., Helwig, S., Hofstetter, A., Jäckel, K.-H., Kesten, D., Kind, R., Maercklin, N., Mechie, J., Mohsen, A., Neubauer, F. M., Oberhänsli, R., Qabbani, I., Ritter, O., Rümpker, G., Rybakov, M., Ryberg, T., Scherbaum, F., Schmidt, J., Schulze, A., Sobolev, S., Stiller, M., Thoss, H., Weckmann U. and Wylegalla, K. (2004): The crustal structure of the Dead Sea Transform. Geophys. Journ. Int., 156, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02143.x.
  • Janssen, Ch., Romer, R. L., Hoffmann-Rothe, A., Kesten, D., Al-Zubi, H. and DESERT Group (2004): The Dead Sea Transform: Evidences for a strong fault?, Journ. of Geology, 112, 561-575, GFZpublic
  • Maercklin, N., Haberland, Ch., Ryberg, T., Weber, M. , Bartov , Y. and DESERT Group (2004): Imaging the DEAD SEA Transform with scattered seismic waves, Geophys. J. Int., 158 (1), 179-186, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02302.x


2003

  • Haberland, Ch., Agnon, A., El-Kelani, R., Maercklin, N., Qabbani, I., Rümpker, G., Ryberg, T., Scherbaum, F. and Weber, M. (2003): Modeling of seismic guided waves at the Dead Sea Transform, Journ.. Geophys. Res., 108(B7), 2342, GFZpublic
  • Ritter, O., Ryberg, T., .Weckmann, U., Hoffmann-Rothe, A., Abueladas, A., Garfunkel, Z. and DESERT Research Group (2003): Geophysical images of the Dead Sea Transform in Jordan reveal an impermeable barrier for fluid flow, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, GFZpublic
  • Rümpker, G., Ryberg, T., Bock, G. and DESERT Seismology Group (2003): Boundary-layer mantle flow under the Dead Sea transform fault inferred from seismic anisotropy, Nature, 425, 497 - 501, GFZpublic


2002

  • DESERT Group (2002): The DESERT passive seismic experiment 2000/2001 in the Middle East, ORFEUS Newsletter, 4, 1-6


2000

  • DESERT Group (2000): Multinational geoscientific research effort kicks off in the Middle East , EOS, 81, 609, 616-617
  • Weber, M., Dresen, G., Haak, V. and Kaufmann, H. (2000): Shear zones and earthquakes, Phys. Bl., 56, 9, 39-44 (in German)
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