Revealing sediment sources, mixing, and transport during erosional crater evolution in the hyperarid Negev Desert, Israel

Geomorphology

Volumn 134, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 363-377

  Fruchter, N ^a   Matmon, A ^a   Avni, Y ^b   Fink, D ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arid; Cosmogenic isotopes; Fluvial terraces; Geomorphology; Negev Desert; Optically stimulated luminescence; Sediment mixing; Sediment transport

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ARID REGION; BEDROCK; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; DRAINAGE BASIN; EROSION RATE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; POINT SOURCE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

ISRAEL; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 80053051948     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.07.011     Document Type: Article

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