Late Quaternary weathering, erosion, and deposition in Nahal Yael, Israel: An "impact of climatic change on an arid watershed"?

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 705-722

  Enzel, Yehouda ^a   Amit, Rivka ^b   Grodek, Tamir ^a   Ayalon, Avner ^b   Lekach, Judith ^a   Porat, Naomi ^b   Bierman, Paul ^c   Blum, Joel D ^d   sErel, Yigal ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FANS; ARID ENVIRONMENTS; ARID WATERSHEDS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; FLUVIAL TERRACES; GEOMORPHIC RESPONSE; HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROGEOMORPHIC; HYPER-ARID CLIMATE; LAG-TIME; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LATE QUATERNARY; NEGEV DESERT; ORIGINAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATIC INFORMATION; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE TRANSITION; SEDIMENT PRODUCTION; VEGETATION COVER; WETTING AND DRYING; WETTING-DRYING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; FLOODS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STORMS; STRATIGRAPHY; WATERSHEDS; WEATHERING;

LANDFORMS;

AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL FAN; ARID ENVIRONMENT; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEPOSITION; EROSION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; TERRACE; VEGETATION COVER; WATERSHED; WEATHERING;

ISRAEL;

EID: 84863516616     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30538.1     Document Type: Article

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