Publications

Levi, T., Weinberger, R., Aïfa, T., Eyal, Y., and Marco, S., 2006, Earthquake-induced clastic dikes detected by anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility: Geology, v. 34, p. 69-72. pdf

Levi, T., Weinberger, R., Aïfa, T., Eyal, Y., and Marco, S., 2006, Injection mechanism of clay-rich sediments into dikes during earthquakes: Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems, v. 7, no. 12, p. Q12009 (doi:12010.11029/12006GC001410). pdf

Levi, T., Weinberger, R., and Marco, S., 2014, Magnetic fabrics induced by dynamic faulting reveal damage zone sizes in soft rocks, Dead Sea basin: Geophysical Journal International, v. 199 (2): 1214-1229, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggu300. pdf

Issachar, R., Levi, T., Marco, S., and Weinberger, R., 2015, Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility in diamagnetic limestones reveals deflection of the strain field near the Dead Sea Fault, Northern Israel: Tectonophysics V. 656, p 175-189 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2015.06.021. pdf

Issachar, R., Levi, T., Lyakhovsky, V., Marco, S. and Weinberger, R. (2016), Improving the method of low-temperature anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (LT-AMS) measurements in air. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. doi:10.1002/2016GC006339 ; pdf

Issachar, R., Levi, T., Marco, S., and Weinberger, R., 2018, Separation of diamagnetic and paramagnetic fabrics reveals strain directions in carbonate rocks: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. pdf

Levi, Tsafrir, Weinberger, Rami, Alsop, G. Ian and Marco, Shmuel, 2018, Characterizing seismites with anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility: Geology, v. 46, no. 9, p. 827-830. pdf

We measure the anisotropy of the magnetic susceptibility (AMS) in order to resolve flow directions of clastic rocks and to determine the strain fields near faults.

The relationship between a small applied magnetic field vector H and the induced magnetization vector M is the magnetic susceptibility. If the magnetic response of a material depends on the orientation of the applied field - it is anisotropic.

Our lab in the Geological Survey, Jerusalem is equipped with an Agico KLY 4 kappabridge.

Partners: Tsafrir Levi, Rami Weinberger, Yehuda Eyal, Ran Issachar (currently a PhD student).

We are indebted to Tahar AÏfa, who was our mentor and taught us the tricks of the trade in the early days of the research.