Diatom-inferred salinity and carbonate oxygen isotopes in Holocene waterbodies of the western Sahara and Sahel (Africa)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 737-767

  Gasse, Françoise ^a  

^a CEREGE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRYING; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; ISOTOPES; WETTING;

WATERBODIES;

SALINE WATER;

HOLOCENE; LAKE LEVEL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SALINITY;

AFRICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 0036210537     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(01)00125-1     Document Type: Article

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