Lake level and paleoenvironmental history of Lake Tanganyika, Africa, as inferred from late Holocene and modern stromatolites

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 444-460

  Cohen, Andrew S ^a   Talbot, Michael R ^b   Awramik, Stanley M ^c   Dettman, David L ^a   Abell, Paul ^d  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CEMENTS; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CARBONATE SATURATIONS; DEPTH DISTRIBUTION; LAKE TANGANYIKA; PALEOCLIMATIC INFORMATION; PRIMARY SOURCES; RADIOCARBON DATA; STABLE ISOTOPE DATA; SURFACE ELEVATIONS; 19TH CENTURY; LAKE BASINS; LAKE KIVU; LAKE LEVELS; LAKE WATERS; LATE HOLOCENE;

LAKES;

CALCITE; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAKE LEVEL; LOWSTAND; MAGNESIUM; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STROMATOLITE; PALAEOENVIRONMENT;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA; AFRICA;

EID: 0031439828     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0444:LLAPHO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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