Paleoclimate reconstruction based on the timing of speleothem growth and oxygen and carbon isotope composition in a cave located in the rain shadow in Israel

Quaternary Research

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 182-193

  Vaks, Anton ^a   Bar Matthews, Miryam ^a   Ayalon, Avner ^a   Schilman, Bettina ^a   Gilmour, Mabs ^b   Hawkesworth, Chris J ^c   Frumkin, Amos ^d   Kaufman, Aaron ^e   Matthews, Alan ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Eastern Mediterranean; Effective precipitation; Paleoclimate; Rain shadow; Speleothems

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCLIMATE; SPELEOTHEM; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ISRAEL; MA'ALE EFRAYIM CAVE;

EID: 0038291681     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-5894(03)00013-9     Document Type: Article

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