PROFESSOR ZVI BEN-AVRAHAM BSc Hebrew PhD MIT
 
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Degrees
  • BSc Hebrew University
  • PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
 
Employment
  • Max Sonnenberg Professor of Marine Geoscience since 1989 (now part-time)
  • Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel
 
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Recent Publications relevant to South Africa
Bird, P., Z. Ben-Avraham, G. Schubert, M. Andreoli and G. Viola (2006) Patterns of stress and strain rate in southern Africa J. Geophys. Res. 111 B08402, doi:10.1029/2005JB003882.

Ben-Avraham Z., M. Reshef and G. Smith (2005) Seismic signature of gas hydrate and mud volcanoes on the South African continental margin, in: Mud Volcanoes, Geodynamics and Seismicity G. Martinelli, and P. Panahi eds., Springer, 17-27.

Reznikov, M., Z. Ben-Avraham, C. Hartnady and T. Niemi (2005) Structure of the Transkei Basin and Natal Valley, Southwest Indian Ocean, from seismic reflection and potential field data Tectonophysics 397 127-141.

Viola, G., M. Andreoli, Z. Ben-Avraham, I. Stengel and M. Reshef (2005) Offshore mud volcanoes and onland faulting in southwestern Africa: Neotectonic implications and constraints on the regional stress field Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 231 147-160.

Ben-Avraham, Z., G. Smith, M. Reshef and E. Jungslager (2002) Gas hydrate and mud volcanoes on the southwest African continental margin Geology 30 927-930.

Niemi, T.M., Z. Ben-Avraham and C.J.H. Hartnady (2000) Post-Eocene seismic stratigraphy of the deep ocean basin adjacent to the southeast African continental margin: a record of geostrophic bottom-current systems Marine Geology 162 237-258.

Ben-Avraham, Z., C.J.H. Hartnady and K.A. Kitchin (1997) Tectonics of the Agulhas-Falkland transform Tectonophysics 282 83-98.

Ben-Avraham, Z. (1995) Neotectonic activity offshore southeast Africa and its implications South African J. of Geology 98 202-207.

Ben-Avraham, Z., C.J.H. Hartnady and A. P. le Roex (1995) Neotectonic activity on continental fragments in the southwest Indian Ocean: Agulhas Plateau and Mozambique Ridge J. Geophys. Res. 100 6199-6211.

Ben-Avraham, Z., C.J.H. Hartnady and J.A. Malan (1994) Reply to discussion by R.J. Pankhurst and C.W. Rapela on "Early tectonic extension between the Agulhas Bank and the Falkland Plateau due to the rotation of the Lafonia microplate" Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 126 505-508.

Lyakhovsky, V., Z. Ben-Avraham and M. Reznikov, (1994) Stress distribution over the Mozambique Ridge Tectonophysics 240 21-27.

Ben-Avraham, Z., T.M. Niemi and C.J.H. Hartnady (1994) Mid-Tertiary changes in deep ocean circulation patterns in the Natal Valley and Transkei Basin, southwest Indian Ocean Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 121 639-646.

Ben-Avraham, Z., Hartnady, C.J.H. and Malan, J.A. (1993) Early tectonic extension between the AguIhas Bank and the Falkland Plateau due to the rotation of the Lafonia microplate. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 117 43-58.

Hartnady, C.J., Ben-Avraham, Z. and Rogers, J. (1992) Deep-ocean basins and submarine rises off the continental margin of south-eastern Africa: new geological research developments. S.Afr. J. Sci. 88 534-539.

 
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