Stable isotopes of a subfossil Tamarix tree from the Dead Sea region, Israel, and their implications for the Intermediate Bronze Age environmental crisis

Quaternary Research

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 319-328

  Frumkin, Amos ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Cave deposit; Climate deterioration; Dead Sea level; Levant paleoclimate; Nitrogen isotopes; Radiocarbon; Salt karst; Sedom; Tree ring isotopes

Indexed keywords

BRONZE AGE; CARBON ISOTOPE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUBFOSSIL; TREE RING;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

TAMARIX;

EID: 63749116989     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.01.009     Document Type: Article

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