Residual colluvio-aeolian aprons in the Negev highlands (Israel) as a palaeo-climatic indicator

Auteurs :
BOWMAN, D.
KARNIELI, A.
ISSAR, A.
BRUINS, H. J.

Description :
Slope features described as alluvial terraces or as a catenary compound of stony loessial sierozen are shown to be remains of former colluvial-loessial aprons. The loess was deposited in the central Negev during the uppermost Pleistocene by dust-laden rainstorms. During the Holocène the aprons were selectively eroded by slope-runoff. The dust-laden rainy regime fits the last, more humid period (70-10 000 BP)


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology, 1986, n°. 56, p. 89-101

Date :
1986