Modern-day synoptic-scale eastern Mediterranean climatology provides a useful context to
synthesize the diverse late Pleistocene (60–12 ka) paleohydrologic and paleoenvironmental …

Loess is a widespread eolian deposit dominated by coarse silt and very fine sand quartz
grains (20–80μm) that serve as an important archive of information on Quaternary climate …

Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology, Second Edition, provides an invaluable and
vastly updated overview of geoarchaeology and how it can be used effectively in the study of …

Dust storms, produced by the removal of surface materials from the world's drylands, are a
vital component of the environment. This is because of their role in biogeochemical cycling …

Grain size analyses of three hilltop, primary eolian loess sequences in the Negev desert,
southern Israel, show a bimodal grain-size distribution at 50–60 μm and 3–8 μm. Using …

Despite the prominent role of physical weathering in arid and semi-arid landscapes, there
has been little study of the specific processes responsible for the rapid breakdown of …

Arid alluvial fan aggradation is highly episodic and fans often comprise active and inactive
sectors. Hence the morphology and texture of fan surfaces are partly determined by …

The vesicular, fine-grained A horizon (Av) is the widespread, ubiquitous surficial horizon of
desert soils in diverse landforms and parent materials of varying ages. Now known to form …

We are in the grip of global warming: sea levels are rising; glaciers are melting, Arctic sea
ice is thinning, meteorological events are becoming more extreme. But how do these …

Eolian dust constitutes much of the pedogenic material in late Pleistocene and Holocene
soils of many arid regions of the world. Comparison of the compositions and influx rates of …