The speleothem record of climate variability in Southern Arabia

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 341, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 633-642

  Fleitmann, Dominik ^a   Matter, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Monsoon; Oman; Speleothems; Stable isotope; Uranium series dating

Indexed keywords

INTERGLACIAL; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPE; STALAGMITE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

EID: 70350064740     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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