A 9000-year oxygen and carbon isotope record of hydrological change in a small Ethiopian crater lake

Holocene

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 167-177

  Lamb, Angela L ^a,b   Leng, Melanie J ^c   Lamb, Henry F ^a   Mohammed, Mohammed Umer ^d  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Crater lake; Ethiopia; Groundwater; Holocene; Lake Tilo; Palaeohydrology; Palaeolimnology; Stable isotopes; 13C; 18O

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CRATER LAKE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ETHIOPIA; LAKE TILO;

EID: 0034013614     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/095968300677444611     Document Type: Article

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