Droughts in the desert: Medieval Warm Period associated with coarse sediment layers in the Gulf of Aqaba‐Eilat, Red Sea

Abstract Prolonged droughts can cause environmental stress, even in ecosystems that are already adapted to dry conditions. In these areas life greatly depends on rare, sporadic rainfall events that can produce flash floods. Today, urban expansion, population growth and development are occurring worldwide, including along hyperarid coastlines, an ecological zone on the extreme of habitability. In such places, the absence of the already limited …