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Brew, G., Lupa, J., Barazangi, M., Sawaf, T., Al-Imam, A., and Zaza, T., Structure and tectonic development of the Ghab Basin and the Dead Sea Fault System,Syria, Journal of the Geological Society, London, 154, 665-674, 2001.

Gomez, F., Karam, G., Khawlie, M., McClusky, S., Vernant, P., Reilinger, R., Jaafar, R., Tabet, C., Khair, K., and Barazangi, M., Global Positioning System measurements of strain accumulation and slip transfer through the restraining bend along the Dead Sea fault system in Lebanon, Geophysical Journal International, 168, 1021-1028, 2007.

Gomez, F., Nemer, T., Tabet, C., Khawlie, M., Meghraoui, M., and Barazangi, M. Strain partitioning of active transpression within the Lebanese restraining bend of the Dead Sea Fault (Lebanon and SW Syria), in Cunningham, W. D., and Mann, P. (eds), Tectonics of Strike-Slip Restraining and Releasing Bends, Geological Society of London, Special Paper, 209, 285-303, 2007.

Gomez, F., Khawlie, M., Tabet, C., Darkal, A., Khair, K., and Barazangi, M., Late Cenozoic uplift along the northern Dead Sea transform in Lebanon and Syria, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 241, 913– 931, 2006.

Gomez, F., Meghraoui, M., Darkal, A.N., Hijazi, F., Mouty, M., Suleiman, Y., Sbeinati, R., Darawcheh, R., Al-Ghazzi, R., and Barazangi, M., Holocene faulting and earthquake recurrence along the Serghaya branch of the Dead Sea fault system in Syria and Lebanon, Geophysical Journal International, 153, 658-674, 2003.

Gomez, F., Meghraoui, M., Darkal, A.N., Sbeinati, R., Darawcheh, R., Tabet, C., Khawlie, M., Charabe, M., Khair, K., and Barazangi, M., Coseismic displacements along the Serghaya Fault: An active branch of the Dead Sea Fault System in Syria and Lebanon, Journal of the Geological Society, London, 158, 405-408, 2001. 

Khair, K., Khawlie, M., Haddad, F., Barazangi, M., Seber, D., and Chaimov, T., Bouguer gravity and crustal structure of the Dead Sea transform fault and adjacent mountain belts in Lebanon, Geology, 21, 739-742, 1993.

Meghraoui, M., Gomez, F., Sbeinati, R., Van der Woerd, J., Mouty, M., Darkal, A.N., Radwan, Y., Layyous, I., Al Najjar, H., Darawcheh, R., Hijazi, F., Al-Ghazzi, R., and Barazangi, M., Evidence for 830 years of seismic quiescence from palaeoseismology, archaeoseismology and historical seismicity along the Dead Sea fault in Syria, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 210 35-52, 2003.

Mohamad, R., Darkal, A., Seber, D., Sandvol, E., Gomez, F., and Barazangi, M., Remote earthquake triggering along the Dead Sea Fault in Syria following the 1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquake (M (sub s) = 7.3), Seismological Research Letters 71 (1), 47-52, 2000.

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