Controlling factors on a paleo-lake oxygen isotope record (Yammoûneh, Lebanon) since the Last Glacial Maximum

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 865-886

  Develle, Anne Lise ^a   Herreros, Julien ^b   Vidal, Laurence ^a   Sursock, Alexandre ^c   Gasse, Françoise ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS TRAJECTORIES; ALKENONES; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CONTROLLING FACTORS; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA; HOLOCENES; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPE RECORD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RECORD; KARSTIC; LAKE WATER TEMPERATURE; LAKE WATERS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE HOLOCENE; LATE QUATERNARY; LEBANON; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OSTRACOD SHELLS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEOTEMPERATURES; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEA SURFACES; SOURCE EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; WATER COMPOSITION;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CARBONATE MINERALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES; LAKES; MOISTURE; OXYGEN; SEAWATER; THERMOANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR MASS; CALCITE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; KARST; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OSTRACOD; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RAINFALL; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHELL; SURFACE WATER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

BEQAA; LEBANON; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); YAMMOUNEH;

FORAMINIFERA; ILYOCYPRIS INERMIS; OSTRACODA;

EID: 77649337282     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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