The climatic and physiographic controls of the eastern Mediterranean over the late Pleistocene climates in the southern Levant and its neighboring deserts

Y Enzel, R Amit, U Dayan, O Crouvi, R Kahana… - Global and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
Modern-day synoptic-scale eastern Mediterranean climatology provides a useful context to
synthesize the diverse late Pleistocene (60–12 ka) paleohydrologic and paleoenvironmental …

Gypsum soils—Their morphology, classification, function, and landscapes

S Casby-Horton, J Herrero, NA Rolong - Advances in agronomy, 2015 - Elsevier
Gypsum soils are both a problem and a puzzle, which is precisely why they deserve
attention. Gypseous (high-gypsum) soils generally occupy sparsely populated land with …

[图书][B] Interpretation of micromorphological features of soils and regoliths

G Stoops, V Marcelino, F Mees - 2018 - books.google.com
Interpretation of Micromorphological Features of Soils and Regoliths, Second Edition,
provides researchers and students with a tool for interpreting features observed in soil thin …

Pedogenesis and clay mineralogical investigation of soils formed on gypsiferous and calcareous materials, on a transect, southwestern Iran

HR Owliaie, A Abtahi, RJ Heck - Geoderma, 2006 - Elsevier
This study examined pedogenesis, as well as the clay mineralogy of soil and rock samples
obtained from a transect of gypsiferous and calcareous materials. The main objectives of this …

Gypsic features

RM Poch, O Artieda, M Lebedeva - Interpretation of micromorphological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Gypsic features, composed of gypsum (Ca (SO 4)· 2H 2 O), are most abundant in soils in
arid or semiarid climates. Gypsum occurrences in soils are generally pedogenic, formed …

Gypsum, a tricky material

J Herrero, O Artieda, WH Hudnall - Soil Science Society of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The familiarity of mankind with gypsum and its simple composition are in contrast with the
frequent mistakes reported for its behavior and role in nature. Gypsum has been studied as …

Permanent Quaternary hyperaridity in the Negev, Israel, resulting from regional tectonics blocking Mediterranean frontal systems

R Amit, Y Enzel, D Sharon - Geology, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Although various episodes of wet Quaternary climates have been suggested in studies of
the Negev Desert, here we demonstrate that Reg soils, developed on flat alluvial surfaces …

Effects of salt mineralogy on dust emissions, Salton Sea, California

BJ Buck, J King, V Etyemezian - Soil Science Society of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Some of the most emissive surfaces on Earth are dominated by salt minerals. We
hypothesized that the vulnerability of surfaces to eolian erosion may be controlled by salt …

Snowball morphology and SEM analysis of pedogenic gypsum, southern New Mexico, USA

BJ Buck, JG Van Hoesen - Journal of Arid Environments, 2002 - Elsevier
Late Quaternary soils in southern New Mexico support previous work that suggested
pedogenic gypsum accumulates in successive stages as a function of time, similar to …

Paleoseismic evidence for time dependency of seismic response on a fault system in the southern Arava Valley, Dead Sea rift, Israel

R Amit, E Zilberman, Y Enzel… - Geological Society of …, 2002 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Elat fault system in the southern Arava Valley (Dead Sea rift, Israel) is a complex fault
zone, characterized by marginal normal faults and central sinistral strike-slip faults …