Auxiliary material for paper 2011JB008711 Geometry and subsidence history of the Dead Sea basin: A case for fluid-induced mid-crustal shear zone? Uri S. ten Brink and Claudia H. Flores U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA ten Brink, U. S., and C. H. Flores (2012), Geometry and subsidence history of the Dead Sea basin: A case for fluid-induced mid-crustal shear zone?, J. Geophys. Res., 117, B01406, doi:10.1029/2011JB008711. Introduction The file ‘resolution tests’ and Table S1 and Figures S4 and S5 discuss resolution tests for the tomographic inversion discussed in the paper. Figures S1 and S3 display all the seismic refraction data used in the paper. Each of these figures has several panels. Figure S2 shows the ray paths from shots to receivers within the Dead Sea basin showing their deviation from a 2-d geometry. 1. 2011jb008711-txts01.docx Resolution tests. 2. 2011jb008711-ts01.docx Model fit to data for inversion with different starting velocities. 3. 2011jb008711-fs01a.pdf Receiver gathers for controlled explosions (panels 1-11). See Table 1 for locations. The gathers were plotted with linear velocity reduction of 7 km/s. Receivers 1 to 409 were aligned from south to north and receivers 410 to 755 were aligned from west to east. Red rectangle – enlarged portion of the plot in (b, c). (b, c) Receiver gathers within 100 km of the controlled shots for the north-south and east-west profiles, respectively. 4. 2011jb008711-fs01b.pdf Same as Figure S1a. 5. 2011jb008711-fs01c.pdf Same as Figure S1a. 6. 2011jb008711-fs01d.pdf Same as Figure S1a. 7. 2011jb008711-fs01e.pdf Same as Figure S1a. 8. 2011jb008711-fs02.pdf Direct ray paths from controlled explosions 4, 5, and 6, to receivers within the DSB. Note the lack of reciprocity between shots because receiver location was dictated by the availability of roads. 9. 2011jb008711-fs03a.jpg Receiver gathers for controlled explosions (panels 1-11), an earthquake (panel 14) and mining explosions (panels 12-22). See Table 1 for locations. The gathers were plotted with no time reduction. Receivers 1 to 409 were aligned from south to north and receivers 410 to 755 were aligned from west to east. Red line – first arrival pick for tomography. 10. 2011jb008711-fs03b.jpg Same as Figure S3a. 11. 2011jb008711-fs03c.jpg Same as Figure S3a. 12. 2011jb008711-fs03d.jpg Same as Figure S3a. 13. 2011jb008711-fs03e.jpg Same as Figure S3a. 14. 2011jb008711-fs03f.jpg Same as Figure S3a. 15. 2011jb008711-fs04.pdf Ray path coverage for various shot-receiver distances binned at shot-receiver increments of 20 km. Color dots indicate midpoints for each ray path. Note the uneven coverage due to the locations of all the receivers along two lines (except for a few permanent stations of the Israeli seismic network), and the locations of 14 of the sources at or near these two lines. 16. 2011jb008711-fs05.pdf Depth slices in the checkerboard test. Top - Nodes in the final velocity model were perturbed by higher and lower velocities in a checkerboard pattern. Bottom – recovered model. See text for further details.