Dune whitening and inter-dune freshwater ponds in NE Brazil

Catena

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-15

  Levin, Noam ^a   Tsoar, Haim ^a   Maia, Luis P ^b   Sales, Vanda Claudino ^c   Herrmann, Hans ^d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Instituto de Ciencias do Mar   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coastal dunes; Iron oxides; Ponds; Reduction; Remote sensing; Rubification

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BLEACHING; COASTAL LANDFORM; COLOR; DUNE FIELD; IRON OXIDE; POND; REDUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33947215081     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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