Age, origin and climatic controls on vegetated linear dunes in the northwestern Negev Desert (Israel)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 13-14, 2011, Pages 1649-1674

  Roskin, Joel ^a   Porat, Naomi ^b   Tsoar, Haim ^a   Blumberg, Dan G ^a   Zander, Anja M ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dunefield; Israel; Late pleistocene; Negev; OSL; Vegetated linear dune

Indexed keywords

DUNEFIELD; ISRAEL; LATE PLEISTOCENE; NEGEV; OSL; VEGETATED LINEAR DUNE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DRAINAGE; LANDFORMS; LUMINESCENCE; STRATIGRAPHY;

SAND;

ACCUMULATION; AGE DETERMINATION; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DESERT; DUNE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MOBILIZATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION HISTORY; WIND DIRECTION;

EGYPT; ISRAEL; NEGEV; NILE DELTA; SINAI; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 79958010374     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.03.010     Document Type: Article

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