Studies on Eolian Dust in Greece

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The origin of the Mediterranian terra rossa soils is disputed. The current opinion is that these soils are a product of limestone weathering. However, some scientists believe that terra rossa is an eolian deposit originating from North Africa. Our project was inspired by this discussion and deals with eolian deposits and dust storms in Greece. Statistics on episodes with atmospheric dust were extracted from meteorological data taken at a number of Greek weather stations. In addition eolian dust of probably Saharan origin was collected in a number of traps placed by us at weather stations in Crete. Data from the statistics and from the traps are presented, analysed and discussed in this paper.

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