Spatially variable sedimentary responses to orbitally driven pluvial climate during Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 5.1, Dakhla Oasis region, Egypt

Quaternary Research

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 252-264

  Brookes, Ian A ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Egypt; Marine Isotope Stage 5; Pleistocene; Sedimentology; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BASINAL SEDIMENTS; EGYPT; EOLIAN SEDIMENTS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MARINE OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTARY RESPONSE; WESTERN DESERT;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GRAVEL; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; STRATIGRAPHY;

DAKHLA; EGYPT; WESTERN DESERT; WESTERN SAHARA;

EID: 77956182738     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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