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Multiple dust sources in the Sahara Desert: The importance of sand dunes by Crouvi, Onn, Schepanski, Kerstin, Amit, Rivka, Gillespie, Alan R., Enzel, Yehouda

“…We determine the current sources of dust in the Sahara Desert using quantitative correlation between the number of days with dust storms (NDS), derived from…”
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Locally recycled late Pleistocene loess feeds modern dust storms at the desert margins of the eastern Mediterranean, Israel by Shalom, Ohad, Crouvi, Onn, Enzel, Yehouda, Rosenfeld, Daniel

“…•Proximal dust sources in Israel are active during regional & local dust storms and at non-storm days.•The contribution of proximal dust to the total dust…”
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A multi-proxy shallow marine record for Mid-to-Late Holocene climate variability, Thera eruptions and cultural change in the Eastern Mediterranean by Avnaim-Katav, Simona, Almogi-Labin, Ahuva, Schneider-Mor, Aya, Crouvi, Onn, Burke, Aaron A., Kremenetski, Konstantine V., MacDonald, Glen M.

“…The River Nile catchment is considered the major source of nutrient-rich freshwater and sediment draining into the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Thus, exceptional…”
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The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the southern Levant: New insights from the late Middle Paleolithic site of Far’ah II, Israel by Goder-Goldberger, Mae, Crouvi, Onn, Caracuta, Valentina, Kolska Horwitz, Liora, Neumann, Frank H., Porat, Naomi, Scott, Louis, Shavit, Roi, Jacoby-Glass, Yael, Zilberman, Tami, Boaretto, Elisabetta

“…Far’ah II is an open-air site in the north western Negev desert (Israel). Previous excavations in the 1970’s revealed a rich, in situ Middle Paleolithic (MP)…”
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The climatic and physiographic controls of the eastern Mediterranean over the late Pleistocene climates in the southern Levant and its neighboring deserts by Enzel, Yehouda, Amit, Rivka, Dayan, Uri, Crouvi, Onn, Kahana, Ron, Ziv, Baruch, Sharon, David

“…Modern-day synoptic-scale eastern Mediterranean climatology provides a useful context to synthesize the diverse late Pleistocene (60–12 ka) paleohydrologic and…”
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Areal Extent of Dust Emission Events and Source Geomorphology in Northern Africa from MSG-SEVIRI Data by Lavi Bekin, Ofer, Crouvi, Onn, Blumberg, Dan G.

“…In this study we (1) mapped the areal extent of current dust sources over Northern Africa between 8°W–31°E and 22°N - Mediterranean coast; and (2) identified…”
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Reclamation of oil-induced soil hydrophobicity in the hyper-arid Evrona Nature Reserve, southern Israel by LI, Zheng, RONEN, Zeev, GELMAN, Faina, CROUVI, Onn, ARYE, Gilboa, ROSENZWEIG, Ravid

“…Two oil spills occurred in the Evrona Nature Reserve (southern Israel), in 1975 and 2014. This oil contamination induced highly persistent soil hydrophobicity…”
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Significance of primary hilltop loess in reconstructing dust chronology, accretion rates, and sources: An example from the Negev Desert, Israel by Crouvi, Onn, Amit, Rivka, Porat, Naomi, Gillespie, Alan R., McDonald, Eric V., Enzel, Yehouda

“…Although high‐latitude loess sequences have been studied extensively for reconstructing past climates, loess in desert margins has been mostly overlooked…”
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Collapse-sinkholes and radar interferometry reveal neotectonics concealed within the Dead Sea basin by Abelson, Meir, Baer, Gidon, Shtivelman, Vladimir, Wachs, Daniel, Raz, Eli, Crouvi, Onn, Kurzon, Ittai, Yechieli, Yoseph

“…The Dead Sea (DS) pull‐apart basin is one of the more seismically active segments of the DS Transform plate boundary. In the last decade, hundreds of…”
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Sediment flux dynamics over the shallow (25 m depth) shelf of the Mediterranean Sea along the Israeli coast by Katz, Timor, Crouvi, Onn

“…In order to study the dynamics of sediment fluxes at the northern end of the Nile littoral cell, sediment traps were deployed for one year over the shallow…”
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The potential influence of dust flux and chemical weathering on hillslope morphology: Convex soil-mantled carbonate hillslopes in the Eastern Mediterranean by Ben-Asher, Matan, Haviv, Itai, Roering, Joshua J., Crouvi, Onn

“…Convex, soil-covered hillslopes are ubiquitous in various tectonic and climatic settings and their morphologic characteristics can be significantly altered by…”
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Intensified winds in the low-mid latitudes during glacial times: The abrasion of coarse silt in sand seas and the loess accretion at desert margins downwind by Crouvi, Onn

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Middle to late Pleistocene shift in eolian silts contribution into Mediterranean soils at the fringe of the Negev loess, Israel by Crouvi, Onn, Barzilai, Omry, Goldsmith, Yonaton, Amit, Rivka, Matskevich, Zinovi, Porat, Naomi, Enzel, Yehouda

“…A common spatial feature within loess deposits worldwide is a downwind decrease in thickness and grain size, trends that are powerful tools for reconstructing…”
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Active sand seas and the formation of desert loess by Crouvi, Onn, Amit, Rivka, Enzel, Yehouda, Gillespie, Alan R.

“…Loess is a widespread eolian deposit dominated by coarse silt and very fine sand quartz grains (20–80 μm) that serve as an important archive of information on…”
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Pedology of archaeological stone-wall bench terraces by Itkin, Danny, Poch, Rosa M., Curtis Monger, H., Shaanan, Uri, Bolòs, Jordi, Crouvi, Onn, Ben Hagai, Nurit, Goldfus, Haim

“…[Display omitted] •Pedogenesis in terrace soils begins chaotically.•Terrace soil pedogenesis partly disaccords with classical soil models.•Early stages of…”
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The influence of climate and microclimate (aspect) on soil creep efficiency: Cinder cone morphology and evolution along the eastern Mediterranean Golan Heights by Ben‐Asher, Matan, Haviv, Itai, Roering, Joshua J., Crouvi, Onn

“…Although hillslope evolution has been subject to much investigation for more than a century, the effect of climate on the morphology of soil‐mantled hillslopes…”
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Pedology of archaeological soils in tells of the Judean foothills, Israel by Itkin, Danny, Crouvi, Onn, Curtis Monger, H., Shaanan, Uri, Goldfus, Haim

“…Tells (archaeological mounds) predominantly consist of poorly consolidated to unconsolidated sediments, and soils that are highly anthropogenic. This study…”
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Live and dead deep-sea benthic foraminiferal macrofauna of the Levantine basin (SE Mediterranean) and their ecological characteristics by Hyams-Kaphzan, Orit, Lubinevsky, Hadas, Crouvi, Onn, Harlavan, Yehudit, Herut, Barak, Kanari, Mor, Tom, Moshe, Almogi-Labin, Ahuva

“…The present study sought to quantitatively characterize the live and dead benthic foraminifera communities of the deep southeastern Levantine basin of the…”
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Landscape responses to intraplate deformation in the Kalahari constrained by sediment provenance and chronology in the Okavango Basin by Vainer, Shlomy, Matmon, Ari, Erel, Yigal, Hidy, Alan J., Crouvi, Onn, De Wit, Mike, Geller, Yona

“…The structural depression that occupies the Okavango Basin in southern Africa comprises a depo-centre within the intracratonic Kalahari Basin where sediments…”
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Predicting the thickness and aeolian fraction of soils in upland watersheds of the Mojave Desert by Crouvi, Onn, Pelletier, Jon D., Rasmussen, Craig

“…Soil thickness and soil texture, and their spatial variability at hillslope scales, are important inputs for hydrologic models. Recent studies have…”
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