Oxygen and carbon isotope composition of authigenic carbonate from an Ethiopian lake: A climate record of the last 2000 years

Holocene

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 517-526

  Lamb, Henry F ^a   Leng, Melanie J ^b,c   Telford, Richard J ^d   Ayenew, Tenalem ^e   Umer, Mohammed ^e  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Carbon; Diatom stratigraphy; East Africa; Ethiopia; Late Holocene; Oxygen; Palaeoclimatology; Palaeolimnology; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

AUTHIGENIC MINERAL; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; DECADAL VARIATION; DIATOM; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STABLE ISOTOPE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; KENYA; LAKE HAYQ; LAKE NAIVASHA; RIFT VALLEY; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 34447532189     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683607076452     Document Type: Article

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