Mediterranean moisture source for an early-Holocene humid period in the northern Red Sea

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5616, 2003, Pages 118-121

  Arz, Helge W ^a   Lamy, Frank ^a   Pätzold, Jürgen ^a   Müller, Peter J ^a   Prins, Maarten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; HYDROLOGY; OSCILLATIONS; RAIN; SEDIMENTS;

MOISTURE SOURCES;

MOISTURE;

FRESH WATER; RAIN; RUNOFF; SURFACE WATER;

CIRCULATION; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOSALINITY; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT CORE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HISTORY; HOLOCENE; HUMIDITY; HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE; OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

RED SEA;

EID: 0037418865     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1080325     Document Type: Article

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