ABSTRACT
It is well known that fluvial landforms are important-locally even the most importantgeomorphologic elements in arid and hyperarid areas. However, analyses of windblown processes dominate in geomorphologic publications about deserts. Studies on fluvial geomorphology are rare and mainly focus on the easily accessible deserts in the American basin-and-range province (e.g., Abrahams et al., 1998; Montgomery and Gran, 2001). Only a few studies deal with fluvial dynamics, such as published for the Negev desert and Dead Sea region of Israel (e.g., Greenbaum et al., 2000; Enzel et al., 2003; Kuhn et al., 2004). As for geomorphologic research in the Sahara, there are hardly any studies on fluvial landforms except for a few that focus on small-scale landform development, mainly in escarpment areas (Baumhauer and Hagedorn, 1990; Baumhauer, 1991).
