Late Quaternary Paleoclimate in the Eastern Mediterranean Region from Stable Isotope Analysis of Speleothems at Soreq Cave, Israel

Quaternary Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 155-168

  Bar Matthews, Miryam ^a   Ayalon, Avner ^a   Kaufman, Aaron ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAMIINAE;

CAVE; CLIMATE; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOCLIMATE CHANGE; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY CLIMATE; SPELEOTHEM;

ISRAEL, SOREQ CAVE;

EID: 0031450296     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1997.1883     Document Type: Article

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