Use of radar data to unveil the paleolakes and the ancestral course of Wadi El-Arish, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt

Geomorphology

Volumn 194, Issue , 2013, Pages 34-45

  AbuBakr, Mostafa ^a   Ghoneim, Eman ^b   El Baz, Farouk ^a   Zeneldin, Mahmoud ^c   Zeid, Salah ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^c AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Arid lands; Northern Sinai; Paleolakes; Paleorivers; Radar remote sensing; SRTM DEM

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; DATA SET; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DRAINAGE BASIN; EPHEMERAL STREAM; MIOCENE; PALEOCHANNEL; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TECTONIC SETTING;

EGYPT; SHAMAL SINA; WADI EL ARISH;

EID: 84877821158     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.04.005     Document Type: Article

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