Evolution of Middle to Late Pleistocene sandy calcareous paleosols underlying the northwestern Negev Desert Dunefield (Israel)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 387, Issue , 2013, Pages 134-152

  Roskin, Joel ^a   Katra, Itzhak ^a   Porat, Naomi ^b   Zilberman, Ezra ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aeolian; OSL; Paleosols; Pleistocene; Sand sheets; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CALCAREOUS SOIL; COASTAL ZONE; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE;

ISRAEL; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 84882793389     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.07.018     Document Type: Article

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