Soil moisture fluctuations recorded in Saharan dust deposits on Lanzarote (Canary Islands) over the last 180ka

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 17-18, 2010, Pages 2173-2184

  von Suchodoletz, H ^a,c   Oberhansli H ^b   Hambach, U ^c   Zoller L ^c   Fuchs, M ^c   Faust, D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARID CONDITIONS; CANARY ISLANDS; CLAY CONTENT; COASTAL AREA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; GENERAL PATTERNS; HIGH LATITUDES; INTERGLACIALS; INTERSTADIALS; INVERSE CORRELATION; MEDITERRANEAN VEGETATION; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH EAST ATLANTIC; PALAEOCLIMATE; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SAHARAN DUST; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SUMMER MONSOON; TIME LAG; WIND STRENGTH;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COASTAL ZONES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARID ENVIRONMENT; CYCLONE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PEDOGENESIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOIL MOISTURE; TRADE WIND;

CANARY ISLANDS; LANZAROTE; LAS PALMAS; SAHARA; SPAIN;

EID: 77955275316     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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