Publications
List of Publications 2008-2023
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Lazar, M., Cline, E., Nickelsberg, R., Shahack-Gross, R., & Yasur-Landau, A. (2023). Chapter 30: Earthquake Damage as a Catalyst for the Abandonment of Tel Kabri. In Excavations at Tel Kabri III. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. P. 389-406. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004548336_031
Chen, Y., Lei, S., Lazar, M., Arkin Shalev, E., Wang, Z. (2023). Mid-Holocene salinity intrusion and rice yield loss on East China coast and the impacts on formation of a complex state society. Marine Geology 466: 107183.
Lazar, M., Siebert, C. (2023). Out of sight, out of mind: underwater springs in the Dead Sea, their relationship to dropping lake levels and tectonics. Geomorphology 436: 108777
Muhedeen, L.A., Bialik, O.M., Lazar, M., Waldmann, N., Makovsky, Y. (2023). Modes of gas migration and seepage on the salt-rooted Palmahim Disturbance, eastern Mediterranean. Marine and Petroleum Geology 153: 106256.
Haddad, A., Chiarabba, C., Lazar, M., Mazzini, A., Polonia, A., Gasperini, L., Lupi, M. (2023). Rifting-driven magmatism along the Dead Sea continental transform fault. Geophysical Research Letters 50: e2022GL099964.
Nachum, Bialik, O. Basson, O., Yasur-Landau, A., Lazar, M. (2023). The anthropogenic affect —humans and geology: an example from Tel Dor, Israel. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 11: 283. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11020283
Lazar, M., Basson, U., Ben-David, R., Coddington, J. (2022). When faults diverge – high resolution imaging of an intra-fault zone in an urban environment. A case study from the city of Tiberias Israel. Engineering Geology 296: 106454.
Shtienberg, G, Gadol, O., Levy, T.E., Norris, R.D., Yasur-Landau, A., Rittenour, T.M., Tamberino, A., Lazar, M., 2021. Changing environments and human interaction during the Pleistocene - Early Holocene from the shallow coastal area of Dor, Israel. Quaternary Research 1-18. doi:10.1017/qua.2021.30
van der Haagen-Wulff, M.C., Lazar, M., Chyle, F., 2021. Body hegemonies 2017: an experimental transfer. Journal for Artistic Research 23. https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.661047
Lazar, M., Basson, U., Himmelstein, A.G., Levy, T.E., Arkin Shalev, U., Yasur-Landau, A. (2021). The door to Door: Tracing unseen anthropogenic impact on an ancient port. Geoarchaeology 36: 203-212.
Shtienberg, G., Yasur-Landau, A., Norris, R.D., Lazar, M., Rittenour, T.M., Tamberino, A., Gadol, O., Cantu, K., Arkin Shalev, U., Goblin, I., Levy, T.E. (2020). A Neolithic mega-tsunami event in the eastern Mediterranean: prehistoric settlement vulnerability along the Carmel Coast, Israel. PLoS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243619
Haddad, A., Alcanie, M., Zahradnik, J., Lazar, M., Antunes, V., Gasperini, L., et al. (2020). Tectonics of the Dead Sea fault driving the July 2018 seismic swarm in the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret), Israel. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2019JB018963. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018963
Lazar, M, Cline, E.H., Nickelsberg, R., Shahack-Gross, R, Yasur-Landau, A. (2020). Earthquake damage as a catalyst to abandonment of a Middle Bronze Age settlement: Tel Kabri, Israel. PLoS ONE 15(9): e0239079. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0239079
Gasperini, L., Lazar, M., Mazzini, A. et al., 2020. Neotectonics of the Sea of Galilee (northeast Israel): implication for geodynamics and seismicity along the Dead Sea Fault system. Scientific Reports 10, 11932. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67930-6
Coianiz, L., Schattner, U., Lang, G., Ben-Avraham, Z., Lazar, M., 2020. Between plate and salt tectonics - New stratigraphic constraints on the architecture and timing of the Dead Sea basin during the Late Quaternary. Basin Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12387
Binder, S.E., Lazar, M., Nantet, E., 2019. Measurements and shape of the Dead Sea in the Hellenistic and Roman periods; confronting Greek and Latin sources with modern physiographical data. Israel Exploration Journal 69: 175-194.
Lazar, M., Gasperini, L., Polonia, A., Lupi, M., Mazzini, A., 2019. Constraints on gas release from shallow lake sediments – a case study from the Sea of Galilee. Geo-Marine Letters. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-019-00588-w
Coianiz, L., Ben-Avraham, Z., Stein, M., Lazar, M., 2019. Spatial and temporal reconstruction of the late Quaternary Dead Sea sedimentary facies from geophysical properties. Journal of Applied Geophysics 160: 15-27.
Oryan B., Villinger, H., Lazar, M., Neugebauer, I., Schwab, M.J., Ben-Avraham, Z., 2019. Heat flow in the Dead Sea from the ICDP boreholes and its implication for the structure of the basin. Quaternary Science Reviews 210: 103-112.
Coianiz, L., Bialik, O., Ben-Avraham, Z., Lazar, M., 2019. Temporal and spatial reconstruction of the late Quaternary Dead Sea sedimentary facies from geophysical properties of three ICDP boreholes. Quaternary Science Reviews 210: 175-189.
Sirhan, S.T., Katsman, R., Lazar, M., 2019. Methane bubble ascent within fine-grained cohesive aquatic sediments: dynamics and controlling mechanisms. Environmental Science and Technology 53: 6320-6329.
Roditi-Elasar, M., Kerem, D., Lazar, M., Barneah, O., Cesare, B., Angel, D.L., 2019. Benthic macro-faunal abundance and diversity and sediment distribution in Akhziv submarine canyon and the adjacent slope (eastern Levant Basin, Mediterranean Sea). Mediterranean Marine Science, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/mms.19430.
Lazar, M., Schattner, U., Reshef, M. (2018). Chapter 13 - The Levant Basin. In: Lofi, J. Déverchère, J., Gaullier, V., Gillet, H., Gorini, C., Guennoc, P., Loncke, L., Maillard, A., Sage et I. Thinon, F. (Eds.), Seismic Atlas of the Messinian Salinity Crisis Markers in the Mediterranean and Black Seas – Volume 2. Commission for the Geological Map of the World and Société Géologie de France.
Lazar, M., 2018. Tectonic segmentation of the Dead Sea Fault system: a review of geophysical evidence. In: Duarte, J.C. (ED). Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones, Elsevier, 417-436 – INVITED CHAPTER.
Lazar, M., Engoltz, K., Basson, U., Yasur-Landau, A., 2018. Water saturated sand and a shallow bay: Combining coastal geophysics and underwater archaeology in the south bay of Tel Dor. Quaternary International 473A: 112-119.
Lang, G., Lazar, M., Schattner, U., 2018. Structural implications of strain localization towards a continental transform fault: The example of the shift between the Levant margin and the Dead Sea Fault plate boundary. Marine and Petroleum Geology 89: 402-414.
Ginat, H., Opiyz, S., Ababneh, L., Faerstein, G., Lazar, M., Porat, N., Mischke, S., 2018. Pliocene-Pleistocene waterbodies and associated deposits in southern Israel and southern Jordan. Journal of Arid Environment 148: 14-33.
Schattner, U., Lang, G., Lazar, M., 2017. Pliocene or Pleistocene, that is the question – new constraints from the eastern Mediterranean, In: Enzel, Y., Bar-Yosef, O. (Eds.), Quaternary Environments, Climate Change and Humans in the Levant. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 53-62. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316106754.007
De Mahiques, M. M., Schattner, U., Lazar, M., Sumida, P.Y.G., de Souza, L.A.P., 2017. An extensive pockmark field on the upper Atlantic margin of Southeast Brazil: spatial analysis and its relationship with salt diapirism. Heliyon, 3(2), e00257. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00257.
Schattner, U., Lazar., M., 2016. Hierarchy of source-to-sink systems-Example from the Nile distribution across the eastern Mediterranean. Sedimentary Geology, 343, 119-131.
Schattner, U., Lazar, M., Souza, L.A.P., ten Brink, U., Mahiques, M.M., 2016. Pockmark asymmetry and seafloor currents in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. Geo-Marine Letters, 1-8.
Lazar, M., Lang, G., Schattner, U., 2016. Coincidence or not? Interconnected gas/fluid migration and ocean–atmosphere oscillations in the Levant Basin. Geo-Marine Letters, 36: 293–306.
Schattner, U., Lazar, M., 2014. Flip convergence across the Phoenician basin through nucleation of subduction. Gondwana Research, 25, 729-735.
Schattner, U., Gurevich, M., Kanari, M., Lazar, M., 2015. The Levant jet system – effect of Post LGM seafloor currents on Nile sediment transport in the eastern Mediterranean. Sedimentary Geology, 329, 28-39.
Ginat, H., Rybakov, M., Shirman, B., Lazar, M., 2014. Magmatic occurrences in the Central Arava (southern Israel) based on geology and magnetometry, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 85, 106-116.
Shtienberg, G., Zviely, D., Sivan, D., Lazar, M., 2014. Two centuries of coastal morphology changes in the prominent site of Caesarea, Israel. Geo-Marine Letters DOI 10.1007/s00367-014-0355-5.
Efrati, S., Lehahn, Y., Rahav, E., Kress, N., Herut, B., Gertman, I., Goldman, R., Ozer, T., Lazar, M., Heifetz, E., 2013. Intrusion of coastal waters into the pelagic Eastern Mediterranean: in situ and satellite-based characterization, Biogeosciences, 10, 3349-3357, doi:10.5194/bg-10-3349-2013.
Miroslav, B., Rybakov, M., Lazar, M., 2013. Tutorial: The gravity stripping process as applied to gravity interpretation in the eastern Mediterranean. The Leading Edge, 32, 410-416.
Ben-Avraham, Z., Lazar, M., Reshef, M., Garfunkel, G., Ginzburg, Y., Rotstein, Y., Frieslander, U., Bartov, Y., Shulman, H., 2012. Structural styles along the Dead Sea fault. In: Roberts, D.G., Balley, A.W. (Eds.) Phanerozoic Regional Geology of the World, v. 2. P. 612-633.
Lazar, M., Ben-Avraham, Z., Garfunkel, Z., 2012. The Red Sea – New insights from recent geophysical studies and the connection to the Dead Sea fault. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 68, 96-110. (Invited article).
Schattner, U., Lazar, M., Harari, D., Waldmann, N., 2012. Active gas migration systems offshore northern Israel, first evidence from seafloor and subsurface data, Continental Shelf Research, doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2012.08.003.
Lazar. M., Schattner, U., Reshef, M., 2012. The great escape – an intra-Messinian gas system in the eastern Mediterranean. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, 20, doi:10.1029/2012GL053484, 2012.
Rybakov, M., Goldshmidt, V., Hall, J.K., Ben-Avraham, Z., Lazar, M., 2011. New insights into the sources of Magnetic Anomalies in the Levant. Russian Geology and Geophysics, 52, 377-396.
Lazar, M., Ben-Avraham, Z., Garfunkel, Z., Porat, N., and Marco, S., 2010, Is the Jericho Escarpment a tectonic or a geomorphological feature? Active faulting and paleoseismic trenching. Journal of Geology, v. 118, p. 261-276. doi:10.1086/651504.
Lazar, M., Schattner, U., 2010. Landscape evolution and hominin dispersal (comment). Quaternary Science Reviews, 29, 1495-1500.
Schattner, U., Lazar, M., Tibor, G., Ben-Avraham, Z., Makovsky, Y., 2010. Filling up the shelf - a sedimentary response to the last post-glacial sea rise. Marine Geology, 278, 165-176.
Rybakov, M., Voznesensky, V., Ben-Avraham, Z., Lazar, M., 2009. The Niklas anomaly southwest of Cyprus: New insights from combined gravity and magnetic data. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 57, p. 125–138. doi: 10.1560/IJES.57.2.125.
Schattner, U., Lazar, M., 2009. Subduction, collision and initiation of hominin dispersal. Quaternary Science Reviews: v. 28, p. 1820-1824.
Ben-Avraham, Z., Lazar, M., Ballard, R.D., Por, F.D., 2008. Microtopography of a continental rift zone: the Gulf of Elat (Aqaba). Indications of hydrothermal-connected biological activity. In: F.D. Por (Ed) Aqaba-Eilat, the Improbable Gulf: Environment, Biodiversity and Preservation. Magnes Press.
Ben-Avraham, Z., Garfunkel, Z., Lazar, M., 2008. Geology and Evolution of the Southern Dead Sea Fault with Emphasis on Subsurface Structure: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. doi: 10.1146/annurev.earth.36.031207.124201