Catastrophic arid episodes in the Eastern Mediterranean linked with the North Atlantic Heinrich events

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 439-442

  Bartov, Yuval ^a   Goldstein, Steven L ^b   Stein, Mordechai ^a,c   Enzel, Yehouda ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Eastern Mediterranean; Heinrich events; Lake Levels; Lake Lisan; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

GLACIATION;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; DROUGHT; EVAPORATION; LAKES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ARID REGIONS;

CLIMATE OSCILLATION; COOLING; HEINRICH EVENT; LAKE LEVEL; LAST GLACIAL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

DEAD SEA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0038660026     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0439:CAEITE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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