Continental oxygen isotopic record of the last 170,000 years in Jerusalem

Quaternary Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 317-327

  Frumkin, Amos ^a   Ford, Derek C ^b   Schwarcz, Henry P ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cave; East Mediterranean; Karst; Last glacial cycle; Paleoclimate; Speleothem; Stable isotopes; TIMS dating

Indexed keywords

CAVE; CLIMATE CHANGE; KARST; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; PALEOCLIMATE; SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ISRAEL; JERUSALEM;

EID: 0032846235     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1998.2031     Document Type: Article

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