Coral climate proxy data from a marginal reef area, Kuwait, northern Arabian-Persian Gulf

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 228, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 86-95

  Gischler, Eberhard ^a   Lomando, Anthony J ^b   Alhazeem, Shaker H ^c   Fiebig, Jens ^a   Eisenhauer, Anton ^d   Oschmann, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Chevron Texaco   (United Kingdom)

^c KUWAIT INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Kuwait)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcium; Carbon; Coral; Isotopes; Kuwait; Oxygen; Persian Arabian Gulf; Strontium

Indexed keywords

CORAL; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; KUWAIT [MIDDLE EAST]; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

ANTHOZOA; PORITES LUTEA;

EID: 27744602771     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.03.052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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