Last interglacial coastal environments in the Mediterranean-Saharan transition zone

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 279, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 137-146

  Mauz, Barbara ^a   Elmejdoub, Noureddine ^b   Nathan, Roger ^c   Jedoui, Younes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GABES   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Last interglacial; Optical chronology; Sea level; System tracts; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; COASTAL ZONE; DATING METHOD; DESERT; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; TRANSGRESSION; TRANSITION ZONE;

AFRICA; SAHARA;

EID: 67649336388     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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