“…Simultaneously, fluvial, aeolian, weathering, and soil-formation processes were active and shaped the present-day landscape. These include bedrock weathering (Yair, 1983; Wieler et al, 2021), cycles of loess deposition, erosion and redeposition, differential slope runoff generation (Wieler et al, 2016), fluvial incision and deposition, calcrete formation (Vogel and Geyh, 2008) and the formation of Reg soils through incorporation of dust and salt into the clastic sediments, clast shattering, and surface patination. Several fluvial terraces, dated to the last 0.5 Ma, have developed as a result of incision and episodic deposition of fluvial sediments, mainly controlled by climatic fluctuations (Goldberg, 1976, 1986; Porat et al, 2010; Matmon et al, 2016; Avni et al, 2017, 2021).…”