Abrupt aridities and salt deposition in the post-glacial Dead Sea and their North Atlantic connection

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 567-575

  Stein, Mordechai ^a   Torfstein, Adi ^a,b   Gavrieli, Ittai ^a   Yechieli, Yoseph ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEAD SEA; GLACIAL PERIOD; HEINRICH EVENTS; HUMAN CULTURES; LAKE LEVELS; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MEAN SEA LEVEL; MELTWATER PULSE; NORTH ATLANTIC; SALT DEPOSITION; TIME INTERVAL; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CORROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GYPSUM; LAKES; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; WATER;

CHLORIDE MINERALS;

ARIDITY; CULTURAL CHANGE; GYPSUM; HEINRICH EVENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAKE LEVEL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MELTWATER; NEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; POSTGLACIAL; SALT;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 74649086136     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.10.015     Document Type: Article

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