Three hundred eighty thousand year long stable isotope and faunal records from the Red Sea: Influence of global sea level change on hydrography

Paleoceanography

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 147-156

  Hemleben, Christoph ^a   Meischner, Dieter ^b   Zahn, Rainer ^c   Almogi Labin, Ahuva ^d   Erlenkeuser, Helmut ^e   Hiller, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAUNAL RECORDS; HYDROGRAPHY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL CHANGES;

RED SEA;

EID: 0029775302     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95PA03838     Document Type: Article

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