In the last 100 years, the population of the land of Israel has increased dramatically,
accompanied by a very intense and accelerated economic and industrial growth. The …

Deep and long-lived rifted basins host valuable information about tectonic evolution and
environmental changes occurring in their surroundings throughout hundreds of millions of …

Random waves are the most important constituent of the sea environment, as they make the
design of maritime structures quite different from that of structures on land. In this book, the …

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 …

Beach nourishment along the Mediterranean coast of Israel represents a new approach to
mitigate coastal erosion by adding suitable sand to threatened beaches. This 'soft'solution …

Abstract This study synthesizes 15 years (2001–2016) of detailed multibeam hydrographic
map** covering the entire 26,500 km 2 of the Israeli Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) …

The southeastern Mediterranean continental shelf is dominated by sediments derived from
the Nile River, which gradually decrease along the Israel coast to the northeast. We here …

Following the termination of the Messinian salinity crisis~ 5.3 million years ago, massive
sedimentation in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea formed the huge Nile Delta. Alongside …

The geographical evolution of Haifa Bay and Zevulun Plain, Israel, from the late Pleistocene
to the Holocene, is based on detailed analysis of drilled cores. At the beginning of the …

The study focuses on the Holocene appearance, chronology and drivers of beach sand
deposition and inland aeolian sand transport around the Roman–Byzantine ruins of …