Sea-level and climatic controls on Late Pleistocene coastal aeolianites in the Cap Bon peninsula, northeastern Tunisia

Boreas

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 198-207

  Elmejdoub, Noureddine ^a   Mauz, Barbara ^b   Jedoui, Younes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GABES   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DATING METHOD; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; OPTICAL METHOD; STRATIGRAPHY;

CAPE BON; NABEUL; TUNISIA;

EID: 78650410968     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00162.x     Document Type: Article

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