Dust deposition over the Dead Sea

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-59

  Singer, Arieh ^a   Ganor, Eliezer ^b   Dultz, Stefan ^c   Fischer, Walter ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dead Sea; Dust deposition; Dust mineralogy; Dust particle sizes; Dust sources

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; DUST; MINERALOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PROVENANCE;

LYBIA;

EID: 0037217045     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jare.2002.1023     Document Type: Article

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