A record of Holocene climate change from lake geochemical analyses in southeastern Arabia

Quaternary Research

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 465-476

  Parker, Adrian G ^a   Goudie, Andrew S ^b   Stokes, Stephen ^b   White, Kevin ^c   Hodson, Martin J ^a   Manning, Michelle ^a   Kennet, Derek ^d  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abrupt climate change; Arabia; Archaeology; Geochemistry; Holocene; Lake levels

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUNE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE WATER; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; WATER LEVEL;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33751349726     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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