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Table of Contents - Special Paper 401

New Frontiers in Dead Sea Paleoenvironmental Research

edited by Yehouda Enzel, Amotz Agnon, and Mordechai Stein

Preface		v
Dedication		ix
1.	The Structure and Development of the Dead Sea Basin: Recent Studies Z. Ben-Avraham and M. Lazar	1
2.	The Active Structure of the Dead Sea Depression G. Shamir	15
3.	Quaternary Rise of the Sedom Diapir, Dead Sea Basin R. Weinberger, Z.B. Begin, N. Waldmann, M. Gardosh, G. Baer, A. Frumkin, and S. Wdowinski	33
4.	Flash Flood–producing Rainstorms Over the Dead Sea: A Review U. Dayan and E. Morin	53
5.	The Hydrology and Paleohydrology of the Dead Sea Tributaries N. Greenbaum, A. Ben-Zvi, I. Haviv, and Y. Enzel	63
6.	Groundwater Hydrology and Paleohydrology of the Dead Sea Rift Valley H. Gvirtzman	95
7.	Response of the Groundwater System to changes in the Dead Sea Level Y. Yechieli	113
8.	Current Depositional Environments at the Dead Sea Margins as Indicators of Past Lake Levels Y. Bartov, R. Bookman, and Y. Enzel	127
9.	U-Th and Radiocarbon Chronologies of Late Quaternary Lacustrine Records of the Dead Sea Basin: Methods and Applications M. Stein and S.L. Goldstein	141
10.	Quaternary Lake Llevels in the Dead Sea Basin: Two Centuries of Research R. Bookman, Y. Bartov, Y. Enzel, and M. Stein	155
11.	Magnetic Properties of Lake Lisan and Holocene Dead Sea Sediments and the Fidelity of Chemical and Detrital Remanent Magnetization H. Ron, N.R. Nowaczyk, U. Frank, S. Marco, and M.O. McWilliams	171
12.	On the Origin and Fate of the Brines in the Dead Sea Basin I. Gavrieli and M. Stein	183
13.	Intraclast Breccias in Laminated Sequences Reviewed: Recorders of Paleo-earthquakes A. Agnon, C. Migowski, and S. Marco	195
14.	The Archaeology of the Dead Sea Valley in the Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods Y. Hirschfeld	215
15.	Dead Sea Photographs From the Nineteenth Century G. Karniel and Y. Enzel	231
16.	Evolution of the Dead Sea Sinkholes M. Abelson, Y. Yechieli, O. Crouvi, G. Baer, D. Wachs, A. Bein, and V. Shtivelman	241