Sea level and shoreline reconstructions for the Red Sea: Isostatic and tectonic considerations and implications for hominin migration out of Africa

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 25-26, 2011, Pages 3542-3574

  Lambeck, Kurt ^a,b   Purcell, Anthony ^a   Flemming, Nicholas C ^c   Vita Finzi, Claudio ^e   Alsharekh, Abdullah M ^f   Bailey, Geoffrey N ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRIC DATA; CHANNEL WIDTHS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; FAR-FIELD; GLACIAL CYCLES; GLACIAL MAXIMA; GLOBAL SEA LEVELS; GULF OF ADEN; HOLOCENES; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIALS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LATE HOLOCENE; LOCATION DEPENDENTS; LONG WAVELENGTH; MASS EXCHANGE; PLEISTOCENE; PREDICTIVE MODELS; RED SEA; RED SEA MARGIN; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TECTONIC STABILITY; TECTONIC UPLIFT; TIME INTERVAL; TIME-AVERAGED; VOLUME CHANGE; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER DEPTH;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL;

TECTONICS;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BATHYMETRY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DISPERSAL; GEOMETRY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; HOMINID; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE SEDIMENT; MIGRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLUME; WATER DEPTH;

ARABIAN SEA; GULF OF ADEN; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 81155135035     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.08.008     Document Type: Review

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