Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

Ben-Israel, M., Holder, R., Nelson, L., Smith, E., Kylander-Clark, A., and Ryb, U. (2024) Late Oxidation of Shallow Marine Environments Revealed by Dolomite U-Pb Dating. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46660-7

Ben-Israel, M., Armon, M., ASTER Team, and Matmon, A. (2022) Sediment Residence Times in Large Rivers Quantified Using a Cosmogenic Nuclides Based Transport Model and Implications for Buffering of Continental Erosion Signals. JGR: Earth Surface, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006417

Ben-Israel, M., Matmon, A., Hidy, A. J., Avni, Y., and Balco, G. (2020), Early-to-mid Miocene erosion rates inferred from pre-Dead Sea rift Hazeva River fluvial chert pebbles using cosmogenic 21Ne. Earth Surface Dynamics, 8(2), 289–301, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-289-2020.

Ben-Israel, M., Matmon, A., Haviv, I., and Niedermann, S. (2018). Applying stable cosmogenic 21Ne to understand surface processes in deep geological time (107-108 yr). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 498, 266-274, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.07.002.

Crouvi, O., Amit, R., Ben-Israel M., and Enzel, Y. (2017). Loess in the Negev Desert: Sources, Loessial Soils, Palaeosols, and Palaeoclimatic Implications. In: Y. Enzel and O. Bar-Yosef (Eds.), Quaternary of the Levant: Environments, Climate Change and Humans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 471-482,  https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316106754.053.

Erel, Y., Goldstein, S., Torfstein, A., Palchan, D., Ben-Israel, M., and Stein, M. (2017). Isotopic Tracers of Dust and Loess in the Levant. In Y. Enzel and O. Bar-Yosef (Eds.), Quaternary of the Levant: Environments, Climate Change, and Humans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 483-492, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316106754.054.

Ben-Israel, M., Enzel, Y., Amit, R. and Erel, Y. (2015). Provenance of the various grain-size fractions in the Negev loess and potential changes in major dust sources to the Eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary Research, 83(1), 105-115, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2014.08.001.

Other publications

Ben-Israel, Michal. “Some don’t like it hot: accounting for Ne diffusion during exposure in hot deserts“, April 22, 2020, The bleeding edge of cosmogenic nuclide geochemistry.