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  1. Determining the microstructure of soft sediments by automatic analysis of scanning electron microscope images of the Dead Sea fault seismites

    Article • The Depositional Record, September 2022, Wiley

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  2. Stratigraphic record reveals contrasting roles of overflows and underflows over glacial cycles in a hypersaline lake (Dead Sea)

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, September 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  3. Orbital‐ and Millennial‐Scale Changes in Lake‐Levels Facilitate Earthquake‐Triggered Mass Failures in the Dead Sea Basin

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, July 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  4. A paleoseismic record spanning 2‐Myr reveals episodic late Pliocene deformation in the western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibet

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, February 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  5. A New Approach to Constrain the Seismic Origin for Prehistoric Turbidites as Applied to the Dead Sea Basin

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, February 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  6. Zones of inelastic deformation around surface ruptures detected by magnetic fabrics

    Article • Tectonophysics, August 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  7. Distinguishing coeval patterns of contraction and collapse around flow lobes in mass transport deposits

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, May 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  8. Relating strain localization and Kaiser effect to yield surface evolution in brittle rocks

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, April 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  9. A 45 kyr laminae record from the Dead Sea: Implications for basin erosion and floods recurrence

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, February 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  10. Bed-parallel slip: Identifying missing displacement in mass transport deposits

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, February 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  11. Assessment of seismic sources and capable faults through hierarchic tectonic criteria: implications for seismic hazard in the Levant

    Article • Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, January 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  12. Fold and Thrust Systems in Mass‐Transport Deposits Around the Dead Sea Basin

    Article • November 2019, Wiley

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  13. Identifying soft-sediment deformation in rocks

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, August 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  14. Evaluating earthquake-induced rockfall hazard near the Dead Sea Transform

    Article • Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, April 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  15. Folding during soft-sediment deformation

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, February 2019, Geological Society

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  16. Strain Field Associated With a Component of Divergent Motion Along the Southern Dead Sea Fault: Insights From Magnetic Fabrics

    Article • Tectonics, January 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  17. Effects of pre-existing faults on compaction localization in porous sandstones

    Article • Tectonophysics, November 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  18. The First Catalog of Archaeomagnetic Directions From Israel With 4,000 Years of Geomagnetic Secular Variations

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, October 2018, Frontiers

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  19. Characterizing seismites with anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility

    Article • Geology, August 2018, Geological Society of America

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  20. Integrated Paleoseismic Chronology of the Last Glacial Lake Lisan: From Lake Margin Seismites to Deep-Lake Mass Transport Deposits

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, April 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  21. Distinguishing thrust sequences in gravity-driven fold and thrust belts

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, April 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  22. Separation of Diamagnetic and Paramagnetic Fabrics Reveals Strain Directions in Carbonate Rocks

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, March 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  23. Fire and collapse: Untangling the formation of destruction layers using archaeomagnetism

    Article • Geoarchaeology, January 2018, Wiley

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  24. Fault and fracture patterns around a strike-slip influenced salt wall

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, January 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  25. Anisotropic Rayleigh wave inversion in unconsolidated dry sands

    Article • Geophysics, November 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Ran Bachrach, Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco, Edan Gofer

  26. Interpreting Soft Sediment Deformation and Mass Transport Deposits as Seismites in the Dead Sea Depocenter

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, October 2017, Wiley

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  27. Kinematics of Mass Transport Deposits revealed by magnetic fabrics

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, August 2017, Wiley

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  28. The Ruin of the Roman Temple of Kedesh, Israel; Example of a Precariously Balanced Archaeological Structure Used as a Seismoscope

    Article • Annals of Geophysics, July 2017, Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  29. Upslope-verging back thrusts developed during downslope-directed slumping of mass transport deposits

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, July 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  30. Increased sedimentation following the Neolithic Revolution in the Southern Levant

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, May 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  31. Fold and thrust systems in Mass Transport Deposits

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, January 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  32. Sedimentary and structural controls on seismogenic slumping within mass transport deposits from the Dead Sea Basin

    Article • Sedimentary Geology, October 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  33. Improving the method of low-temperature anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (LT-AMS) measurements in air

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, July 2016, Wiley

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  34. Quantifying Earthquake Effects on Ancient Arches, Example: The Kalat Nimrod Fortress, Dead Sea Fault Zone

    Article • Seismological Research Letters, March 2016, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  35. Cycles of passive versus active diapirism recorded along an exposed salt wall

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, March 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  36. Archaeological record of earthquakes

    Article • Tectonics, October 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  37. Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility in diamagnetic limestones reveals deflection of the strain field near the Dead Sea Fault, northern Israel

    Article • Tectonophysics, August 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  38. Pollen seasonality used to resolve date of earthquake-triggered damage in an archaeological site

    Article • Palynology, June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  39. Deformation within an exposed salt wall: Recumbent folding and extrusion of evaporites in the Dead Sea Basin

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  40. The association of micro-earthquake clusters with mapped faults in the Dead Sea basin

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, November 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  41. Magnetic fabrics induced by dynamic faulting reveal damage zone sizes in soft rocks, Dead Sea basin

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, September 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  42. Clastic dikes in the Dead Sea basin as indicators of local site amplification

    Article • Natural Hazards, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  43. Fold and fabric relationships in temporally and spatially evolving slump systems: A multi-cell flow model

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, June 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  44. Historical sand injections on the Mediterranean shore of Israel: evidence for liquefaction hazard

    Article • Natural Hazards, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  45. A Paleoseismic Record of Earthquakes for the Dead Sea Transform Fault between the First and Seventh Centuries C.E.: Nonperiodic Behavior of a Plate Boundary Fault

    Article • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, May 2014, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  46. Possible connection between large volcanic eruptions and level rise episodes in the Dead Sea Basin

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, April 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  47. Characterization of land degradation along the receding Dead Sea coastal zone using airborne laser scanning

    Article • Geomorphology, February 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  48. Review of On-Fault Palaeoseismic Studies Along the Dead Sea Fault

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  49. Seismogenic slump folds formed by gravity-driven tectonics down a negligible subaqueous slope

    Article • Tectonophysics, October 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  50. Deriving a long paleoseismic record from a shallow-water Holocene basin next to the Alpine fault, New Zealand

    Article • Geological Society of America Bulletin, February 2013, Geological Society of America

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  51. A Submerged Monumental Structure in the Sea of Galilee, Israel

    Article • The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, February 2013, Wiley

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  52. Re-estimating the epicenter of the 1927 Jericho earthquake using spatial distribution of intensity data

    Article • Journal of Applied Geophysics, July 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  53. Archaeoseismic Evidence of Two Neolithic (7,500-6,000 B.C.) Earthquakes at Tell es-Sultan, Ancient Jericho, Dead Sea Fault

    Article • Seismological Research Letters, July 2012, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  54. Tsunami and seiche-triggered deformation within offshore sediments

    Article • Sedimentary Geology, June 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  55. Use of airborne laser scanning to characterise land degradation processes – the Dead Sea as a case study

    Article • Survey Review, April 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  56. A large-scale radial pattern of seismogenic slumping towards the Dead Sea Basin

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, January 2012, Geological Society

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  57. Slip rate and slip magnitudes of past earthquakes along the Bogd left-lateral strike-slip fault (Mongolia)

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, July 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  58. Soft-sediment deformation within seismogenic slumps of the Dead Sea Basin

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  59. Sinkhole characterization in the Dead Sea area using airborne laser scanning

    Article • Natural Hazards, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  60. Is the Jericho Escarpment a Tectonic or a Geomorphological Feature? Active Faulting and Paleoseismic Trenching

    Article • The Journal of Geology, May 2010, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  61. Quantitative analysis of seismogenic shear-induced turbulence in lake sediments

    Article • Geology, April 2010, Geological Society of America

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  62. Impact of earthquakes on agriculture during the Roman–Byzantine period from pollen records of the Dead Sea laminated sediment

    Article • Quaternary Research, March 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  63. Late Holocene events that shaped the shoreline at the northern Gulf of Aqaba recorded by a buried fossil reef

    Article • Israel Journal of Earth Sciences, December 2009, Laser Pages Publishing Ltd.

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  64. Earthquake-induced barium anomalies in the Lisan Formation, Dead Sea Rift valley, Israel

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, August 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  65. The Seismicity along the Dead Sea Fault during the Last 60,000 Years

    Article • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, June 2009, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  66. Estimating location and size of historical earthquake by combining archaeology and geology in Umm-El-Qanatir, Dead Sea Transform

    Article • Natural Hazards, November 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  67. Recognition of earthquake-related damage in archaeological sites: Examples from the Dead Sea fault zone

    Article • Tectonophysics, June 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  68. Temporal variation in the geometry of a strike–slip fault zone: Examples from the Dead Sea Transform

    Article • Tectonophysics, December 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  69. The use of acoustic imaging to reveal fossil fluvial systems—a case study from the southwestern Sea of Galilee

    Article • Geomorphology, January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  70. The Feasibility of Using Melanopsis Shells as Radiocarbon Chronometers, Lake Kinneret, Israel

    Article • Radiocarbon, January 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  71. Injection mechanism of clay-rich sediments into dikes during earthquakes

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, December 2006, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  72. Earthquake-induced clastic dikes detected by anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility

    Article • Geology, January 2006, Geological Society of America

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  73. Intraclast breccias in laminated sequences reviewed: Recorders of paleo-earthquakes

    Article • January 2006, Geological Society of America

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  74. Magnetic properties of Lake Lisan and Holocene Dead Sea sediments and the fidelity of chemical and detrital remanent magnetization

    Article • January 2006, Geological Society of America

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  75. Future trends in paleoseismology: Integrated study of the seismic landscape as a vital tool in seismic hazard analyses

    Article • Tectonophysics, October 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  76. High-resolution stratigraphy reveals repeated earthquake faulting in the Masada Fault Zone, Dead Sea Transform

    Article • Tectonophysics, October 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  77. Soft sediment deformation by Kelvin Helmholtz Instability: A case from Dead Sea earthquakes

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, July 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  78. Late Holocene activity of the Dead Sea Transform revealed in 3D palaeoseismic trenches on the Jordan Gorge segment

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, May 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  79. The late Quaternary limnological history of Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), Israel

    Article • Quaternary Research, January 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  80. A 40,000 year unchanging seismic regime in the Dead Sea rift

    Article • Geology, January 2005, Geological Society of America

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  81. Evolution of fringing reefs: space and time constraints from the Gulf of Aqaba

    Article • Coral Reefs, November 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  82. Large earthquakes kill coral reefs at the north-west Gulf of Aqaba

    Article • Terra Nova, April 2004, Wiley

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  83. Sea of Galilee: Comprehensive analysis of magnetic anomalies

    Article • Israel Journal of Earth Sciences, January 2004, Laser Pages Publishing Ltd.

    Professor Lev V Eppelbaum, Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  84. Lake Kinneret levels and active faulting in the Tiberias area

    Article • Israel Journal of Earth Sciences, January 2004, Laser Pages Publishing Ltd.

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  85. Intensity and direction of the geomagnetic field on 24 August 1179 measured at Vadum Iacob (Ateret) Crusader fortress, northern Israel

    Article • Israel Journal of Earth Sciences, March 2003, Laser Pages Publishing Ltd.

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  86. Archaeology, history, and geology of the A.D. 749 earthquake, Dead Sea transform

    Article • Geology, January 2003, Geological Society of America

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  87. Radial clastic dykes formed by a salt diapir in the Dead Sea Rift, Israel

    Article • Terra Nova, August 2002, Wiley

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  88. Late Pleistocene paleomagnetic secular variation from the Sea of Galilee, Israel

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2002, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  89. High-resolution geological record of historic earthquakes in the Dead Sea basin

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2001, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  90. Precision of Calibrated Radiocarbon Ages of Historic Earthquakes in the Dead Sea Basin

    Article • Radiocarbon, January 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  91. New Dates from Submerged Late Pleistocene Sediments in the Southern Sea of Galilee, Israel

    Article • Radiocarbon, January 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  92. Reconstructing low levels of Lake Lisan by correlating fan-delta and lacustrine deposits

    Article • Quaternary International, November 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  93. The locking-in of remanence in upper Pleistocene sediments of Lake Lisan (palaeo Dead Sea)

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 1999, Geological Society

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  94. High-resolution record of geomagnetic secular variation from Late Pleistocene Lake Lisan sediments (paleo Dead Sea)

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, September 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  95. Crusader castle torn apart by earthquake at dawn, 20 May 1202

    Article • Geology, January 1998, Geological Society of America

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  96. 817-Year-old walls offset sinistrally 2.1 m by the Dead Sea transform, Israel

    Article • Journal of Geodynamics, September 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  97. Long-term earthquake clustering: A 50,000-year paleoseismic record in the Dead Sea Graben

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, March 1996, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  98. Prehistoric earthquake deformations near Masada, Dead Sea graben

    Article • Geology, January 1995, Geological Society of America

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco

  99. Chemical remanent magnetism related to the Dead Sea Rift: Evidence from Precambrian igneous rocks of Mount Timna, southern Israel

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 1993, Wiley

    Professor Shmuel (Shmulik) Marco