Vegetation and climate changes in the South Eastern Mediterranean during the Last Glacial-Interglacial cycle (86 ka): New marine pollen record

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 27-28, 2011, Pages 3960-3972

  Langgut, D ^a,b   Almogi Labin, A ^b   Bar Matthews, M ^b   Weinstein Evron, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Eastern Mediterranean Sea; Holocene; Late Pleistocene; Levant; Paleoclimate changes; Pollen; Vegetation reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA; HOLOCENES; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LEVANT; PALEOCLIMATE CHANGE; POLLEN;

FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEEP SEA; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; MOISTURE CONTENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECONSTRUCTION; RIVER DISCHARGE; SAPROPEL; SPELEOTHEM; STEPPE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

DESERTS; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; MEDITERRANEAN; PLANTS; POLLEN;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; FORAMINIFERA; QUERCUS;

EID: 82355180850     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.10.016     Document Type: Article

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