The Al Wajh platform – located in the Arabian–African desert belt – is a large land‐attached carbonate platform in the Red Sea providing an excellent opportunity to fill this gap. The platform covers some 1800 km 2 and is almost completely enclosed by a 115 km long reef‐shoal belt. ...
Observations reveal that seasonal phytoplankton blooms inside the lagoon occur during a distinctively different period compared to the adjacent open sea. We provide evidence that this striking difference is due to the contrasting hydrodynamic conditions between inside and outside the lagoon, through their...
Results of a simultaneous field and airborne hyperspectral remote-sensing campaign to assess geomorphological and biological characteristics of lagoonal reef communities inside the Al Wajh Bank, Red Sea, are presented. For a study area encompassing fine-scale geomorphic features, such as a reef ridge ...
The Saudi Red Sea coast along Jeddah, Yanbu, Duba, Sharma, Al-Wajh, Jazan, and Sharm Al-Kharrar has been intensively studied regarding HM contamination in sediments and seawaters (e.g., [13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22]). Lithogenic sources were responsible for introducing Co, Ni, ...
The stratigraphy of the late Holocene shallow subsurface coastal sediments, North Al-Wajh, Saudi Arabia was investigated to reconstruct the environmental evolution of the area in relation to sea-level changes. Five shallow cores (1.1 to 2.2 m long) were collected from the intertidal flat bordering...