Eolian transport and deposition in a partially vegetated linear sand dune area (northwestern Negev, Israel)

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband

Volumn 121, Issue , 2000, Pages 77-90

  Littmann, Thomas ^a   Gintz, Dorothea ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN PROCESS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; VEGETATION COVER;

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EID: 0033918599     PISSN: 00442798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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