A high-resolution late Holocene lake isotope record from Turkey and links to North Atlantic and monsoon climate

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 361-364

  Jones, Matthew D ^a,b   Roberts, C Neil ^a   Leng, Melanie J ^b,c   Türkeş, Murat ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Isotopes; Lake sediments; Monsoon; North Sea Caspian pattern; Paleoclimate; Turkey

Indexed keywords

LAKE SEDIMENTS; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; TURKEY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; ISOTOPES; LAKES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEDIMENTS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MONSOON; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CASPIAN SEA; EURASIA; NORTH SEA; TURKEY;

EID: 33646761994     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22407.1     Document Type: Article

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