Bathymetry of Lake Lisan controls late Pleistocene and Holocene stream incision in response to base level fall

Geomorphology

Volumn 106, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 352-362

  Davis, Michael ^a,b   Matmon, Ari ^a   Zilberman, Ezra ^b   Porat, Naomi ^b   Gluck, Daniel ^a   Enzel, Yehouda ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Geological Survey of   (Israel)

Author keywords

Base level; Bathymetry; Dead Sea; Diffusion; Incision; Lisan; Longitude profile; Modeling; Nahal Zin; OSL

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; BATHYMETRY; CHANNEL FLOW; DEPOSITION; ESCARPMENT; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PLEISTOCENE; UNCONSOLIDATED MEDIUM;

ARAVA VALLEY; ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NAHAL ZIN; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 62649086044     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.11.014     Document Type: Article

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