Publications
PDFs available on request (email: crouvi@gsi.gov.il)
2023
Dente, E., Katz, O., Crouvi, O., and Mushkin, A. (2023).
The Geomorphic Effectiveness of Landslides.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, v. 128, no. 12, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007191
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Goder-Goldberger, M., Gilead, I., Boaretto, E., Edeltin, L., Kolska-Horwitz, L., Jacoby-Glass, Y., Lavi, R., Neumann, F.H., Porat, N., Toffolo, M. B., Van Aardt, A. C., Zilberman, T., and Crouvi, O. (2023).
Living in an ecotone: Late Middle Palaeolithic occupations in the lower Besor Basin, north-western Negev Desert, Israel.
Antiquity, 1-8, doi:10.15184/aqy.2023.89
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Censi, P., Sirota, I., Zuddas, P., Lensky, N.G., Crouvi, O., Cangemi, M., Piazzese, D. (2023).
Rare earths release from dissolving atmospheric dust and their accumulation into crystallising halite: The Dead Sea example.
Science of The Total Environment, 875, 162682, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162682.
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Itkin, D., Poch, R. Monger, C., Shaanan, U., Bolòs, J. Crouvi, O., Ben Hagai, N., Goldfus, H. (2022).
Pedology of archaeological stone-wall bench terraces.
Geoderma. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116129.
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Shemesh, R., Mushkin, A., Crouvi, O., and Katz, O. (2022).
5.24 - Mass Movements in Coastal Environments: Insights from the Storm, Seasonal and Annual-Scale Sediment Budget of Cliff-Dominated Beaches in the Eastern Mediterranean.
In: Shroder, J. F. (Ed.), Treatise on Geomorphology (Second Edition), Academic Press, 389-414. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00209-1.
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Harel, E., Goren, L., Crouvi, O., Ginat, H., and Shelef, E. (2022)
Drainage reorganization induces deviations in the scaling between valley width and drainage area.
Earth Surf. Dynam. 10, 875–894, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-10-875-2022.
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Livio, F.A., Zerboni, A., Ferrario, M.F., Mariani, G. S., Martinelli, E., and Amit, R. (2022).
Triggering processes of deep-seated gravitational slope deformation (DSGSD) in an un-glaciated area of the Cavargna Valley (Central Southern Alps) during the Middle Holocene.
Landslides 19, 1825–1841. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-022-01892-w
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Itkin, D., Bar-Tal, A., Crouvi, O., Dor, M., Erel, R., Gross, A., Levy, G.J., Minz, D., Rozenstein, O., Yalin, D., and Eshel, G. (2022).
Soil Priorities in Israel.
Geoderma Regional, 29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geodrs.2022.e00505.
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2022
2021
Li, Z., Ronen, Z., Gelman, F., Crouvi, O., Arye, G., Rosenzweig, R. (2021).
Potential reclamation of oil-induced soil hydrophobicity in hyper-arid Evrona nature reserve.
Pedosphere, 31, (6), 892-902. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1002-0160(21)60031-0.
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Tau, G., Crouvi, O., Enzel, Y., Teutsch, N., Ginoux, P., and Rasmussen, C. (2021).
Shutting down dust emission during the middle Holocene drought in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona.
Geology, 49, (7), 857-861. https://doi.org/10.1130/G48550.1
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Vainer, S., Matmon, A., Erel, Y., Hidy, A. J., Crouvi. O., De Wit, M., Geller, Y., and ASTER Team. (2021).
Landscape responses to intraplate deformation in the Kalahari as constrained by sediment provenance and chronology in the Okavango Basin.
Basin Research, 33, (2), 1170-1193. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12509
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Ben-Asher, M., Haviv, I., Crouvi, O., Roering, J.J., and Matmon, A. (2021).
The convexity of carbonate hilltops: 36Cl constraints on denudation and chemical weathering rates and implications for hillslope curvature.
Geological Society of America Bulletin,133, (9-10), 1930-1946. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B35658.1.
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Amit, R., Enzel, Y., and Crouvi, O. (2021).
Quaternary influx of proximal coarse-grained dust altered circum-Mediterranean soil productivity and impacted early human culture: REPLY
Geology, 49, (11), 540.
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​​Amit, R., Enzel, Y., and Crouvi, O. (2021).
Quaternary influx of proximal coarse-grained dust altered circum-Mediterranean soil productivity and impacted early human culture.
Geology, 49, (1), 61-65. https://doi.org/10.1130/G47708.1
2020
​Lavi Bekin, O., Crouvi, O., and Blumberg D. G. (2020).
Areal extent of dust emission events and source geomorphology in Northern Africa from MSG SEVIRI data.
Remote Sensing, 12, 2775. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12172775
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Barzilai, O., Goldsmith, Y., Shemer, M., Porat, N., and Crouvi, O., (2020).
Evidence for a Middle Paleolithic flint workshop in Arnona, south Jerusalem.
Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 50, 6-34.
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Shalom, O., Crouvi, O., Enzel, Y., and Rosenfeld, D. (2020).
Locally recycled late Pleistocene loess feeds modern dust storms at the desert margins of the eastern Mediterranean, Israel. Aeolian Research, 46, 100612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2020.100612
Goder-Goldberger, M., Crouvi, O., Caracuta, V., Kolska-Horwitz, L., Neumann, F.H., Porat, N., Scott, L., Shavit, R., Jacoby-Glass, Y., Zilberman, T., Boaretto, E. (2020).
The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in the Southern Levant: New insights from the late Middle Paleolithic site of Far’ah II, Israel.
Quaternary Science Reviews, 237, 106304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106304
2019
Ben-Asher, M., Haviv, I., Roering, J.J., and Crouvi, O. (2019).
The potential influence of dust flux and chemical weathering on hillslope morphology: convex soil-mantled carbonate hillslopes in the Eastern Mediterranean
Geomorphology, 341, 203-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.05.021.
Avnaim-Katav, S., Almogi-Labin, A., Schneider-Mor, A., Crouvi, O., Burke, A.A., Kremenetski, K.V., MacDonald, G.M. (2019).
A multi-proxy shallow marine record for Mid-to-Late Holocene climate variability, Thera eruptions and cultural change in the Eastern Mediterranean
Quaternary Science Reviews, 204, 133-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.12.001.
Shemer, M., Crouvi, O., Shaar, R., Ebert, Y., Matmon, A., ASTER Team, Horwitz, L. K., Eisenmann, V., Enzel, Y., and Barzilai, O. (2019).
Geochronology, Paleogeography and Archaeology of the Acheulian locality of 'Evron landfill in the Western Galilee, Israel
Quaternary Research. 91, 2, 729-750. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2018.107.
2018
Katz, T., and Crouvi, O. (2018).
Sediment flux dynamics over the shallow (25 m depth) shelf of the Mediterranean Sea along the Israeli coast
Marine Geology, 406, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2018.09.004.
Itkin, D., Crouvi, O., Monger, C., Shaanan, U., and Goldfus, H. (2018).
Pedology of archaeological soils in tells of the Judean foothills, Israel
Catena, 168, 47-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2018.03.014.
Hyams-Kaphzan, O., Lubinevsky, H., Crouvi, O., Harlavan, Y., Kanari, M., Tom, M., Almogi-Labin, A., and Herut, B. (2018).
Live and dead deep-sea bentic foraminifera of the Levantine Basin (SE Mediterranean) and their ecological characteristics
Deep-Sea Research Part I, 136, 72-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2018.04.004.
Schaetzl, R.J., Bettis, E.A., Crouvi, O., Fitzsimmons, K.E., Grimley, D.A., Hambach, U., Lehmkuhl, F., Marković, S.B., Mason, J.A., Owczarek, P., Roberts, H.M., Rousseau, D.-D., Stevens, T., Vandenberghe, J., Zárate, M., Veres, D., Yang, S., Zech, M., Conroy, J.L., Dave, A.K., Faust, D., Hao, Q., Obreht, I., Prud’homme, C., Smalley, I., Tripaldi, A., Zeeden, C., and Zech, R., (2018).
Approaches and challenges to the study of loess—Introduction to the LoessFest Special Issue
Quaternary Research, 89, 563-618. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2018.15.
Crouvi, O., Barzilai, O., Goldsmith, Y., Amit, R., Matskevich, Z., Porat, N., and Enzel, Y. (2018).
Middle to late Pleistocene shift in eolian silts contribution into Mediterranean soils at the fringe of the Negev loess, Israel
Quaternary Science Reviews, 191, 101-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.030.
2017
Ben-Asher, M., Haviv, I., Roering, J.J., and Crouvi, O. (2017).
The Influence of Climate and Micro-climate (aspect) on Soil Creep Efficiency: cinder cone morphology and evolution along the eastern Mediterranean Golan Heights
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 42, 2649-2662. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4214.
Lubinevsky, H., Hyams-Kaphzan, O., Almogi-Labin, A., Silverman, J., Harlavan, Y., Crouvi, O., Herut, B., Kanari, M., and Tom, M. (2017).
Deep-sea soft bottom infaunal communities of the Levantine Basin (SE Mediterranean) and their shaping factors
Marine Biology, 164, 36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-016-3061-1.
Crouvi, O., Dayan, U., Amit, R., and Enzel, Y. (2017).
An Israeli haboob: Sea breeze activating local anthropogenic dust sources in the Negev loess
Aeolian Research, 24, 39-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2016.12.002.
2016
Mushkin, A., Katz, O., Crouvi, O., Alter, S., and Shemesh, R. (2016).
Sediment contribution from Israel’s coastal cliffs into the Nile’s littoral cell and its significance to cliff-retreat mitigation efforts
Engineering Geology, 215, 91-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2016.11.005.
Crouvi, O., Amit, R., and Enzel, Y. (2016).
Seeking knowledge in the dust
EOS, 97, doi.org/10.1029/2016EO049501.
Brevik, E. C., Richter, D. d., Verrecchia, E. P., Ryan, J., Poch, R. M., Crouvi, O., Sauer, D., Waroszewski, J., Solleiro-Rebolledo, E., Monger, C., Ottner, F., and Targulian, V. (2016).
The influence of Dan H. Yaalon: His impact on people
Catena, 146, 147-154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2015.10.012.
2015
2015
2013
Vardi, J., Yegorov, D., Crouvi, O., and Birkenfeld, M. (2015).
Renewed excavations at site K7: A Final Report of the 2012 Salvage Excavation at Har Harif Plateau
Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 45, 170-191.
Matmon, A., Hidy, Al. J., Vainer, S., Crouvi. O., Fink, D., Erel, Y., ASTER Team, Horwitz, L., and Chazan, M. (2015).
New chronology for the southern Kalahari Group sediments with implications for sediment-cycle dynamics and early hominin occupation
Quaternary Research, 84, 1, 118-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2015.04.009.
Crouvi, O., Polyakov, V. O., Pelletier, J. D., and Rasmussen, C. (2015).
Decadal-scale soil redistribution along hillslopes in the Mojave Desert
Earth Surface Dynamics, 3, 251-264, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-3-251-2015.
Amit, R., Enzel, Y., Mushkin, A., Gillespie, A. R., Batbaatar, J., Crouvi, O., Vandenberghe, J., and Zhisheng, A. (2013).
Linking coarse silt production in Asian sand deserts and Quaternary accretion of the Chinese Loess Plateau
Geology, 42, 23-26. https://doi.org/10.1130/G34857.1.
Crouvi, O., Pelletier, J.D., and Rasmussen, C. (2013).
Predicting the thickness and aeolian fraction of soils in upland watersheds of the Mojave Desert
Geoderma, 195-196C, 94-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.11.015.
2012
Crouvi, O., Schepanski, K., Amit, R., Gillespie, A. R., and Enzel, Y. (2012).
Multiple dust sources in the Sahara Desert: The importance of sand dunes
Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L13401. https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GL052145.
2011
Amit, R., Simhai, O., Ayalon, A., Enzel, Y., Matmon, A., Crouvi, O., Porat, N., and McDonald, E. V. (2011).
Transition from arid to hyper-arid environment in the southern Levant deserts as recorded by early Pleistocene cummulic Aridisols
Quaternary Science Reviews, 30, 312-323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.11.007.
Amit, R., Enzel, Y., Crouvi, O., Simhai, O., Matmon, A., Porat, N., McDonald, E. V., and Gillespie, A. R. (2011).
The role of the Nile in initiating a massive dust influx to the Negev late in the middle Pleistocene
Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123, 5/6, 873-889. https://doi.org/10.1130/B30241.1.
Bacon, S. N., McDonald, E. V., Amit, R., Enzel, Y., and Crouvi, O. (2011).
Total suspended particulate (TSP) emissions at high friction velocities from landforms in the Negev Desert
Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, 116, F03019. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JF001965.
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2010
Amit, R., Enzel, Y., Grodek, T., Crouvi, O., Porat, N., and Ayalon, A. (2010).
The role of rare rainstorms in the formation of calcic soil horizons on alluvial surfaces in extreme deserts
Quaternary Research, 74, 177-187. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2010.06.001.
Crouvi, O., Amit, R., Enzel, Y., and Gillespie, A. R. (2010).
The role of active sand seas in the formation of desert loess
Quaternary Science Reviews, 29, 2087-2098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.04.026.
Enzel, Y., Amit, R., Crouvi, O., and Porat, N. (2010).
Abrasion-derived sediments under intensified winds at the latest Pleistocene leading edge of the advancing Sinai–Negev erg
Quaternary Research, 74, 121-131. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2010.04.002.
2009
Salamon, A., Katz, O., and Crouvi, O. (2009).
Zones of required investigation for earthquake related hazards in Jerusalem
Natural Hazards, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-009-9436-6.
Barzilai, O., Birkenfeld, M., and Crouvi, O. (2009).
Ramat Rachel – A Palaeolithic site in Jerusalem
Eurasian Prehistory, 6, 1-2, 65-72.
Ginat, H., Beyth, M., and Crouvi, O. (2009).
Geomorphic evidence for young tectonic activity around Har Timna
Israel Journal of Earth Sciences, 57, 213-229.
Crouvi, O., Amit, R., Porat, N., Gillespie, A. R., McDonald, E. V., and Enzel, Y. (2009).
Significance of primary hilltop loess in reconstructing dust chronology, accretion rates, and sources: An example from the Negev Desert, Israel
Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, 114, F02017, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JF001083.
2008
Crouvi, O., Amit, R., Enzel, Y., Porat, N., and Sandler, A. (2008).
Sand dunes as a major proximal dust source for late Pleistocene loess in the Negev desert, Israel
Quaternary Research, 70, 275-282. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2008.04.011.
Enzel, Y., Amit, R., Dayan, U., Crouvi, O., Kahana, R., Ziv, B., and Sharon, D. (2008).
The climatic and physiographic controls of the eastern Mediterranean over the late Pleistocene climates in the southern Levant and its neighboring deserts
Global and Planetary Change, 60, 3-4, 165-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.02.003.
Before 2008
Katz, O. and Crouvi, O. (2007).
The geotechnical effects of long human habitation (2000< years); earthquake induced landslide hazard in the city of Zefat, northern Israel
Engineering Geology, 95, 57-78.
Koltunov, A., Crouvi, O., and Ben-Dor, E. (2006).
Geomorphologic mapping from hyperspectral data, using Gaussian mixtures and lower confidence bounds
International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27, 4545-4566.
Crouvi, O., Ben-Dor, E., Beyth, M., Avigad, D., and Amit, R. (2006).
Quantitative mapping of arid alluvial fan surfaces using field spectrometer and hyperspectral remote sensing
Remote Sensing of Environment, 104, 103-117.
Yechieli, Y., Abelson, M., Bein, A., Crouvi, O., and Shtivelman, V. (2006).
Sinkhole “swarms” along the Dead Sea coast: Reflection of disturbance of lake and adjacent groundwater systems
Geological Society of America Bulletin, 118, 9/10, 1075-1087.
Matmon, A., Crouvi, O., Enzel, Y., Bierman, P., Larsen, J., Porat, N., Amit, R. and Caffee, M. (2003).
Complex exposure histories of chert clasts in the late Pleistocene shorelines of Lake Lisan, southern Israel
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 28, 493-506.
Abelson, M., Bear, G., Shtivelman, V., Wachs, D., Raz, E., Crouvi, O., Kurzon, I., and Yechieli, Y. (2003).
Collapse-sinkholes and radar interferometry reveal neotectonics concealed within the Dead Sea basin
Geophysical Research Letters, 30, 52-1 – 52-4.