10Be in Lake Lisan sediments - A proxy for production or climate?

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 448-457

  Belmaker, Reuven ^a   Lazar, Boaz ^a   Tepelyakov, Natalya ^b   Stein, Mordechai ^b   Beer, Jürg ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cosmogenic isotopes; Dead Sea; dust; Lake Lisan; loess; production rates

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOMAGNETISM; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

COSMOGENIC ISOTOPES; HYDROLOGICAL-LIMNOLOGICAL SYSTEM; LOESS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ARAGONITE; BERYLLIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DEPOSITION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; HYDROLOGY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LIMNOLOGY; LOESS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; JORDAN; KARAK; LISAN PENINSULA; MIDDLE EAST; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 43249109255     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.02.032     Document Type: Article

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