Do dune sands redden with age? The case of the northwestern Negev dunefield, Israel

Aeolian Research

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 63-75

  Roskin, Joel ^a   Blumberg, Dan G ^a   Porat, Naomi ^b   Tsoar, Haim ^a   Rozenstein, Offer ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Northwestern Negev dunefield; OSL; Sand redness; Sinai Negev erg; Spectroscopic redness index

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; DEPOSITION; DIAGENESIS; DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; INDEX METHOD; LUMINESCENCE; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY;

EGYPT; ISRAEL; NEGEV; SINAI; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 84861336765     PISSN: 18759637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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