D/H ratios of fluid inclusions of Soreq cave (Israel) speleothems as a guide to the Eastern Mediaterranean Meteoric Line relationships in the last 120 ky

Chemical Geology

Volumn 166, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 183-191

  Matthews, Alan ^a   Ayalon, Avner ^b   Bar Matthews, Miryam ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fluid inclusions; Paleoclimate; Speleothems; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CAVE; FLUID INCLUSION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; KARST; SPELEOTHEM;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0034113693     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00192-8     Document Type: Article

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