Late-Pleistocene rise of the Sedom diapir on the backdrop of water-level fluctuations of Lake Lisan, Dead Sea basin

Quaternary International

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-61

  Weinberger, R ^a   Bar Matthews, M ^a   Levi, T ^a,b   Begin, Z B ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; LAST GLACIAL; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; UPLIFT; WATER LEVEL;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; MOUNT SEDOM; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 36549023379     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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