Short contribution: Nile flow failure at the end of the Old Kingdom, Egypt: Strontium isotopic and petrologic evidence

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 395-402

  Stanley, Jean Daniel ^a   Krom, Michael D ^b   Cliff, Robert A ^b   Woodward, Jamie C ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOW; EROSION RATE; FLOODING; PALEOCLIMATE; PETROLOGY; RAINFALL; STRONTIUM; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; VEGETATION COVER;

BLUE NILE [NILE RIVER]; EGYPT; NILE RIVER; SUDAN; WHITE NILE;

EID: 1242341769     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.10065     Document Type: Article

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