The Eastern Mediterranean paleoclimate as a reflection of regional events: Soreq cave, Israel

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 166, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 85-95

  Bar Matthews, Miryam ^a   Ayalon, Avner ^a   Kaufman, Aaron ^b   Wasserburg, Gerald J ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eastern Mediterranean; O, C, Sr and U isotopes; Paleoclimate; Speleothems

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SPELEOTHEM;

ISRAEL; SOREQ CAVE;

EID: 0033611716     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00275-1     Document Type: Article

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