Variations of the Nile suspended discharges during the last 1.75Myr

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 311, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 230-241

  Zhao, Yulong ^a,b   Liu, Zhifei ^a   Colin, Christophe ^b   Paterne, Martine ^c   Siani, Giuseppe ^b   Cheng, Xinrong ^a   Duchamp Alphonse, Stéphanie ^b   Xie, Xin ^a  

^a Tongji University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

African monsoon; Eastern Mediterranean Sea; Obliquity; Suspended discharge; The Nile River

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CHRONOLOGY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DISCHARGE; NONLINEARITY; OBLIQUITY; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RIVER DISCHARGE; RUNOFF; SAPROPEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE; SUSPENDED LOAD; TERTIARY; TITANIUM; VANADIUM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); NILE RIVER;

GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER;

EID: 81555205830     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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