U-Th dating of Lake Lisan (late Pleistocene dead sea) aragonite and implications for glacial east Mediterranean climate change

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 985-1005

  Haase Schramm, Alexandra ^a   Goldstein, Steven L ^a,b   Stein, Mordechai ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

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

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAGONITE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 1542380027     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2003.07.016     Document Type: Article

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