A 3000-year climatic record from biogenic silica oxygen isotopes in an equatorial high-altitude lake

Science

Volumn 281, Issue 5379, 1998, Pages 980-982

  Rietti Shati, M ^a   Shemesh, A ^a   Karlen, W ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

BIOGENIC MINERAL; HOLOCENE; LAKE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; KENYA; LAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

AFRICA; MOUNT KENYA;

EID: 0032516625     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5379.980     Document Type: Article

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