Sea - land oxygen isotopic relationships from planktonic foraminifera and speleothems in the Eastern Mediterranean region and their implication for paleorainfall during interglacial intervals

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 67, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 3181-3199

  Bar Matthews, Miryam ^a,b   Ayalon, Avner ^a   Gilmour, Mabs ^b   Matthews, Alan ^c   Hawkesworth, Chris J ^b,d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVE; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RAINFALL; SPELEOTHEM;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0038704036     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(02)01031-1     Document Type: Article

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