The Sahara-East Mediterranean dust and climate connection revealed by strontium and uranium isotopes in a Jerusalem speleothem

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 217, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 451-464

  Frumkin, Amos ^a   Stein, Mordechai ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dust mobilization; Dust record; Karst record; Paleohydrology; Sahara paleoclimate; Soil; Speleothem record; Sr isotopes; U isotopes; U series dating

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DUST; EOLIAN PROCESS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; QUATERNARY; SPELEOTHEM; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; URANIUM ISOTOPE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

AFRICA; ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; JERUSALEM [ISRAEL]; MIDDLE EAST; SAHARA;

EID: 1642441276     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00589-2     Document Type: Article

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