Cool glacial temperatures and changes in moisture source recorded in Oman groundwaters

Science

Volumn 287, Issue 5454, 2000, Pages 842-845

  Weyhenmeyer, Constanze E ^a   Burns, Stephen J ^a   Waber, H Niklaus ^a   Aeschbach Hertig, Werner ^b   Kipfer, Rolf ^b   Loosli, H Hugo ^a   Matter, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER;

ATMOSPHERIC GAS; GROUNDWATER; NOBLE GAS; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLEISTOCENE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WATER VAPOR;

OMAN;

EID: 0034603128     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5454.842     Document Type: Article

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64. We thank the Ministry of Water Resources (MWR) of the Sultanate of Oman for their permission to conduct this fieldwork as well as for their logistic and scientific support; Z. Al Suleimani, former Director of Research, and P. Macumber, former Head of the Groundwater Section, MWR, for their assistance during various stages of this project; and U. Beyerle and S. Reese for their laboratory work.