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DOI	10.1130/G49623Y.1
	Quaternary influx of proximal coarse-grained dust altered circum-Mediterranean soil productivity and impacted early human culture
	Amit, Rivka; Enzel, Yehouda; Crouvi, Onn
通讯作者	Amit, R (corresponding author), Geol Survey Israel, 32 Yeshayahu Leibowitz St, IL-9692100 Jerusalem, Israel.
来源期刊	GEOLOGY
ISSN	0091-7613
EISSN	1943-2682
出版年	2021
卷号	49 期号:11 页码:E540-E540
英文摘要	The carbonate mountainous landscape around most of the Mediterranean is karstic, is almost barren, and has thin soils. Erosion of preexisting thicker soils is a common hypothesis used to explain this bare terrain. An alternative hypothesis is that in the Mediterranean region, thin soils are attributed to long-distance transport of very fine, silty clay dust, resulting in low mass accumulation rates. Even if accreted over millennia, such dust cannot produce thick, highly productive soils. A pronounced anomaly in the Mediterranean is the thick, more productive soil of the semiarid southern Levant (SL). These soils contain order of-magnitude coarser grains than the characteristic thin soils in the Mediterranean and a high proportion (>70%) of coarse silt quartz sourced from the nearby Sinai-Negev erg, the primary contributor of the Negev loess. This proximal intense dust supply produced greatly thicker soils. However, influx of coarse silt quartz loess is a geologically recent phenomenon in the SL. Pre-loess (i.e., older than 200 ka, pre-coarse-silt influx) SL soils are much finer and were generated by long-distance dust from the Sahara and Arabia like most other Mediterranean soils. Thus, we hypothesize that the geologically recent Negev Desert loess interval caused a drastic change in mountainous soil properties within the SL, enriching the Levant's ecology and affecting early human development. The high amounts of coarse silt deposited on the landscape have contributed to the unique sustainable agriculture in the SL, which assisted in transforming the Levant into the land of milk and honey and a cradle of civilizations.
类型	Editorial Material
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Bronze
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000714680800002
WOS关键词	NEGEV LOESS ; MIDDLE
WOS类目	Geology
WOS研究方向	Geology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/373776
作者单位	[Amit, Rivka; Crouvi, Onn] Geol Survey Israel, 32 Yeshayahu Leibowitz St, IL-9692100 Jerusalem, Israel; [Enzel, Yehouda] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Inst Earth Sci, IL-9692100 Jerusalem, Israel
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Amit, Rivka,Enzel, Yehouda,Crouvi, Onn. Quaternary influx of proximal coarse-grained dust altered circum-Mediterranean soil productivity and impacted early human culture[J],2021,49(11):E540-E540.
APA	Amit, Rivka,Enzel, Yehouda,&Crouvi, Onn.(2021).Quaternary influx of proximal coarse-grained dust altered circum-Mediterranean soil productivity and impacted early human culture.GEOLOGY,49(11),E540-E540.
MLA	Amit, Rivka,et al."Quaternary influx of proximal coarse-grained dust altered circum-Mediterranean soil productivity and impacted early human culture".GEOLOGY 49.11(2021):E540-E540.