Changing moisture sources over the last 330,000 years in Northern Oman from fluid-inclusion evidence in speleothems

Quaternary Research

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 223-232

  Fleitmann, Dominik ^a   Burns, Stephen J ^b   Neff, Ulrich ^c   Mangini, Augusto ^c   Matter, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluid inclusions; Oman; Paleoprecipitation; Speleothems; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

FLUID INCLUSION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROVENANCE; QUATERNARY; RAINFALL; SPELEOTHEM;

HOTI CAVE; OMAN;

EID: 0141427792     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-5894(03)00086-3     Document Type: Article

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