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Rivka Amit is affiliated with the Geological Survey of Israel in Israel, contributing extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily addresses several interconnected domains including Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Paleontology, and Ecology.

The scope of Rivka Amit's research topics spans:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeological and Geological Studies

The scientist has been a frequent contributor to several publication venues, showcasing a focus on both geological and geomorphological subjects. These venues include:

  • Geology
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geomorphology
  • Remote Sensing
  • Tectonics

Some of the recent papers associated with Rivka Amit demonstrate their involvement in studies at the intersection of geology, climate, and cultural impacts. These papers include:

  • "Quaternary influx of proximal coarse-grained dust altered circum-Mediterranean soil productivity and impacted early human culture," 2020, Geology
  • "Toward the Detection of Permafrost Using Land-Surface Temperature Mapping," 2020, Remote Sensing (authored by Jigjidsurengiin Batbaatar)
  • "The Mid-eighth Century CE Surface Faulting Along the Dead Sea Fault at Tiberias (Sea of Galilee, Israel)," 2020, Tectonics (authored by Maria Francesca Ferrario)
  • "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," 2022, Landslides (authored by Franz Livio)
  • "Runoff generation, rill erosion and time-scales for hyper-arid abandoned alluvial surfaces, the Negev desert, Israel," 2020, Geomorphology (authored by Noam Greenbaum)

Rivka Amit has collaborated frequently with several researchers, indicating an interdisciplinary network of partnerships. Among the frequent co-authors are:

  • Amit Mushkin
  • R. S. Sletten
  • Yehouda Enzel
  • Onn Crouvi
  • Matan Ben-Asher

Best Publications

  • High-Resolution Holocene Environmental Changes in the Thar Desert, Northwestern India

    Y. Enzel;Lisa L. Ely;S. Mishra;R. Ramesh

  • The climatic and physiographic controls of the eastern Mediterranean over the late Pleistocene climates in the southern Levant and its neighboring deserts

    Yehouda Enzel;Rivka Amit;Uri Dayan;Onn Crouvi

  • Sand dunes as a major proximal dust source for late Pleistocene loess in the Negev Desert, Israel

    Onn Crouvi;Rivka Amit;Yehouda Enzel;Naomi Porat

  • Desert pavement-coated surfaces in extreme deserts present the longest-lived landforms on Earth

    Ari Matmon;Ori Simhai;Rivka Amit;Itai Haviv

  • Active sand seas and the formation of desert loess

    Onn Crouvi;Rivka Amit;Yehouda Enzel;Alan R. Gillespie

  • Stages and rate of the gravel shattering process by salts in desert Reg soils

    R. Amit;R. Gerson;D.H. Yaalon

  • The evolution of holocene reg (gravelly) soils in deserts

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  • Multiple dust sources in the Sahara Desert: The importance of sand dunes

    Onn Crouvi;Onn Crouvi;Kerstin Schepanski;Rivka Amit;Alan R. Gillespie

  • Permanent Quaternary hyperaridity in the Negev, Israel, resulting from regional tectonics blocking Mediterranean frontal systems

    Rivka Amit;Yehouda Enzel;David Sharon

  • Rates and modes of dust accretion and deposition in an arid region--the Negev, Israel

    R. Gerson;R. Amit

  • Significance of primary hilltop loess in reconstructing dust chronology, accretion rates, and sources: An example from the Negev Desert, Israel

    Onn Crouvi;Rivka Amit;Naomi Porat;Alan R. Gillespie

  • Quantitative mapping of arid alluvial fan surfaces using field spectrometer and hyperspectral remote sensing

    Onn Crouvi;Eyal Ben-Dor;Michael Beyth;Dov Avigad

  • Surface ruptures induced by the devastating 1068 AD earthquake in the southern Arava valley, Dead Sea Rift, Israel

    E. Zilberman;R. Amit;N. Porat;Y. Enzel

  • Abrasion-derived sediments under intensified winds at the latest Pleistocene leading edge of the advancing Sinai–Negev erg

    Yehouda Enzel;Rivka Amit;Onn Crouvi;Naomi Porat

  • Paleoseismic evidence for time dependency of seismic response on a fault system in the southern Arava Valley, Dead Sea rift, Israel

    Rivka Amit;Ezra Zilberman;Yehuda Enzel;Naomi Porat

  • THE MICROMORPHOLOGY OF GYPSUM AND HALITE IN REG SOILS—THE NEGEV DESERT, ISRAEL

    R. Amit;D. H. Yaalon

  • The Seismicity along the Dead Sea Fault during the Last 60,000 Years

    Y. Hamiel;R. Amit;Z. B. Begin;S. Marco

  • Relief Inversion in the Avrona Playa as Evidence of Large-Magnitude Historical Earthquakes, Southern Arava Valley, Dead Sea Rift

    Rivka Amit;Ezra Zilberman;Naomi Porat;Yehouda Enzel

  • Changes in Holocene Paleoseismic activity in the Hula pull-apart basin, Dead Sea Rift, northern Israel

    E Zilberman;R Amit;A Heimann;N Porat

  • Soils as a tool for estimating ages of Quaternary fault scarps in a hyperarid environment — the southern Arava valley, the Dead Sea Rift, Israel

    R. Amit;J.B.J. Harrison;Y. Enzel;N. Porat

  • Residual ages of modern sediments in an hyperarid region, Israel

    Naomi Porat;Ezra Zilberman;Rivka Amit;Yehouda Enzel

  • The role of the Nile in initiating a massive dust influx to the Negev late in the middle Pleistocene

    Rivka Amit;Yehouda Enzel;Onn Crouvi;Ori Simhai

Frequent Co-Authors

Yehouda Enzel
Yehouda Enzel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Naomi Porat
Naomi Porat Physical Research Laboratory
Alan R. Gillespie
Alan R. Gillespie University of Washington
Ari Matmon
Ari Matmon Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Avner Ayalon
Avner Ayalon Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ofer Bar-Yosef
Ofer Bar-Yosef Harvard University
Paul R. Bierman
Paul R. Bierman University of Vermont
Yossef H. Hatzor
Yossef H. Hatzor Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Uri Dayan
Uri Dayan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Kerstin Schepanski
Kerstin Schepanski Leibniz Association

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