Northward intrusions of low- and mid-latitude storms across the Saharo-Arabian belt during past interglacials

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 567-570

  Waldmann, Nicolas ^a   Torfstein, Adi ^b   Stein, Mordechai ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID CONDITIONS; CLIMATE SHIFTS; DEAD SEA; HUMAN MIGRATION; INTERGLACIALS; LAKE LEVELS; LATE QUATERNARY; NEGEV DESERT; NORTH ATLANTIC; RED SEA; TROPICAL PLUME;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

LANDFORMS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CYCLONE; DEPOSITION; INTERGLACIAL; LAKE LEVEL; LOWSTAND; QUATERNARY; RAINFALL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPELEOTHEM; STORM; TRAVERTINE; TROUGH;

ARAVA VALLEY; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); DEAD SEA; ISRAEL; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 77955551685     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30654.1     Document Type: Article

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