Petrography, strontium, barium and uranium concentrations, and strontium and uranium isotope ratios in speleothems as palaeoclimatic proxies: Soreq Cave, Israel

Holocene

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 715-722

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

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Caves; Eastern Mediterranean; Holocene; Isotopes; Israel; Palaeoclimate; Petrography; Pleistocene; Speleothems; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC RATIO; PALEOCLIMATE; PETROGRAPHY; SPELEOTHEM;

ISRAEL; SOREQ CAVE;

EID: 0032694548     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/095968399673664163     Document Type: Article

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