Quantifying climatic change through the last glacial-interglacial transition based on lake isotope palaeohydrology from central Turkey

Quaternary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 463-473

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lakes; Last glacial maximum; Oxygen isotope; Precipitation; Turkey

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; MASS BALANCE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER BUDGET;

ANATOLIA; ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; JERUSALEM [ISRAEL]; KONYA [TURKEY]; LAKE VAN; MIDDLE EAST; SOREQ CAVE; TURKEY;

EID: 34147148028     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2007.01.004     Document Type: Article

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