Early pleistocene lake deposits and Lower Paleolithic finds in Nahal (wadi) Zihor, Southern Negev desert, Israel

Quaternary Research

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 445-458

  Ginat, Hanan ^a   Zilberman, Ezra ^a   Saragusti, Idit ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; TECTONIC SETTING;

ISRAEL; NEGEV DESERT;

EID: 0038375406     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-5894(03)00029-2     Document Type: Article

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