Provenance of the various grain-size fractions in the Negev loess and potential changes in major dust sources to the Eastern Mediterranean

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 105-115

  Ben Israel, Michal ^a,b   Enzel, Yehouda ^a   Amit, Rivka ^b   Erel, Yigal ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arabia; Dust; Eastern Mediterranean; Isotopes; Loess; Paleoclimate; Quaternary; Sahara; Sr Nd

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; ISOTOPES; MAGNESIUM; MIXING; NEODYMIUM; SEDIMENTS; STRONTIUM;

ARABIA; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATES; QUATERNARY; SAHARA;

DUST;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUNE; DUST; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LOESS; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROVENANCE; QUATERNARY; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; EGYPT; ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NEGEV; NILE DELTA; SAHARA; SINAI; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 84920713391     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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