Palynology, sedimentology and palaeoecology of the late Holocene Dead Sea

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 1476-1498

  Neumann, Frank Harald ^a,b,c   Kagan, Elisa J ^a,b   Schwab, Markus J ^d   Stein, Mordechai ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VEGETATION;

DEAD SEA; PALAEOECOLOGY; PALEO-LAKE RECONSTRUCTION; PALYNOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BRONZE AGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITHOLOGY; MIDDLE AGES; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; VEGETATION HISTORY; VULNERABILITY;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 34250376422     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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