Stratigraphy, depositional environments and level reconstruction of the last interglacial Lake Samra in the Dead Sea basin

Quaternary Research

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-15

  Waldmann, N ^a   Stein, M ^b   Ariztegui, D ^c   Starinsky, A ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dead Sea basin; Lacustrine depositional environments; Lake level; Last interglacial; Paleoclimate; Paleolimnology; Sedimentary basins; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST INTERGLACIAL; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 67349144694     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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