The Younger Dryas episode and the radiocarbon chronologies of the Lake Huleh and Ghab Valley pollen diagrams, Israel and Syria

Holocene

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 631-636

  Meadows, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early Holocene; Ghab; Huleh; Israel; Levant; Radiocarbon; Reservoir effects; Syria; Vegetation history; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; POLLEN; RADIOCARBON DATING; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; WORLD;

EID: 20044392843     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683605hl838fa     Document Type: Article

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