Estuarine development and early Holocene transgression across an aeolianite substrate, Caesarea, central Israel

JA Goff, JA Austin Jr, BN Goodman-Tchernov - Continental Shelf Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Estuaries are important features on the coastal landscape due to their potential for rich,
diverse, and abundant resources. The modern coast of the southeast Mediterranean is …

New perspectives on coastal landscape reconstruction during the Late Quaternary: A test case from central Israel

G Shtienberg, JK Dix, J Roskin, N Waldmann… - Palaeogeography …, 2017 - Elsevier
The stratigraphic architecture of coastal plains is determined by the interactions between
local (eg fluvial processes and topography), regional (eg climate) and global (eg sea level) …

Late-Pleistocene evolution of the continental shelf of central Israel, a case study from Hadera

G Shtienberg, J Dix, N Waldmann, Y Makovsky… - Geomorphology, 2016 - Elsevier
Sea-level fluctuations are a dominant mechanism that control coastal environmental
changes through time. This is especially the case for the successive regressions and …

Sea-level lowstand in the eastern Mediterranean: Late Pleistocene coastal terraces offshore northern Israel

DF Belknap, Y Mart - Journal of Coastal Research, 1999 - JSTOR
A series of side-scan sonar surveys, seismic profiles and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)
observations along rocky terraces on the distal continental shelf off northern Israel …

Quaternary sedimentology and prehistory on the Mediterranean coastal plain of Israel

A Ronen - Quaternary International, 2018 - Elsevier
The coastal plain of Israel is composed primarily of Nile-derived quartz sand carried
northward in the Nile Littoral Cell and partly windblown on land. Occasional clay and gravel …

The interplay between relative sea-level rise and sediment supply at the distal part of the Nile littoral cell

H Elyashiv, R Bookman, D Zviely… - The …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
During Holocene sea-level rise, coastal areas became transitional environments as marine
incursion covered the land. Changing conditions resulted in dynamic depositional …

Longshore sand transport estimates along the Mediterranean coast of Israel in the Holocene

D Zviely, E Kit, M Klein - Marine geology, 2007 - Elsevier
The Nile littoral cell, one of the world's longest, runs 650 km along the southeastern
Mediterranean, from Abu Quir Bay near Alexandria, Egypt, to Haifa Bay on the northern …

Sequence stratigraphy of Miocene-Pliocene carbonate-siliciclastic shelf deposits in the eastern Mediterranean margin (Israel): effects of eustasy and tectonics

B Buchbinder, E Zilberman - Sedimentary Geology, 1997 - Elsevier
Mio-Pliocene marine sediments comprise a discontinuous succession of carbonates and
mixed carbonate siliciclastics on the Neogene shelf, which coincides with the Judean …

Geology of Mediterranean shelf of Israel

A Ginzburg, SS Cohen, H Hay-Roe… - AAPG …, 1975 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The continental shelf of Israel ranges in width from 3 to 25 km. It is underlain by 4,000-9,000
m of Mesozoic and Tertiary strata that in part represent a westward extension of the better …

Case histories of coexisting reefs and terrigenous sediments: the Gulf of Elat (Red Sea), Java Sea, and Neogene basin of the Negev, Israel

GM Friedman - Developments in Sedimentology, 1988 - Elsevier
The contemporaneous deposition of clastics and development of carbonate-secreting
organisms, once thought to have been mutually exclusive, is actually quite common through …