Climate change in the Turkana basin as deduced from a 4000 year long δO18 record

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 7-17

  Ricketts, R D ^a,b   Johnson, T C ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; O 18 O 16; Turkana Basin

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; LAKE LEVEL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALAEOCLIMATE;

ETHIOPIA, LAKE TURKANA;

EID: 0030437621     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(96)00094-5     Document Type: Article

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