Middle-Late Quaternary paleoclimate of northern margins of the Saharan-Arabian Desert: Reconstruction from speleothems of Negev Desert, Israel

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 19-20, 2010, Pages 2647-2662

  Vaks, Anton ^a,b,c   Bar Matthews, Miryam ^b   Matthews, Alan ^c   Ayalon, Avner ^b   Frumkin, Amos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID AREA; CARBON FRACTION; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA; GLACIAL PERIOD; HIGH PRESSURE CELLS; HOST ROCKS; HUMID CLIMATES; HUMID PERIODS; LATE QUATERNARY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MONSOON INDEX; MONSOON RAINFALL; NEGEV DESERT; PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; PALEOCLIMATES; RAYLEIGH DISTILLATION; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; TROPICAL RAIN; VEGETATION COVER;

ANIMALS; ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISTILLATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; RECREATIONAL FACILITIES; VEGETATION;

LANDFORMS;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CYCLONE; HOMINID; HUMIDITY; INTERGLACIAL; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPELEOTHEM; URANIUM SERIES DATING; VEGETATION COVER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EASTERN DESERT; EGYPT; ISRAEL; JERUSALEM [ISRAEL]; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); NEGEV; SAHARA; SOREQ CAVE; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE;

EID: 77955560616     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.06.014     Document Type: Article

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