Pleistocene water intrusions from the Mediterranean and Caspian seas into the Black Sea

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 236-239

  Badertscher, S ^a   Fleitmann, D ^a   Cheng, H ^b,c   Edwards, R L ^c   Gokturk O M ^a   Zumbuhl A ^a   Leuenberger, M ^a   Tuysuz O ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SPELEOTHEM; SURFACE WATER;

BLACK SEA; BOSPORUS STRAIT; CASPIAN SEA;

EID: 79953649198     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1106     Document Type: Article

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