Timing and hydrological conditions of Sapropel events in the Eastern Mediterranean, as evident from speleothems, Soreq cave, Israel

Chemical Geology

Volumn 169, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 145-156

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

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

East Mediterranean; Israel; Sapropels; Speleothems; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY; SAPROPEL; SPELEOTHEM;

ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 0033812489     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00232-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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