Dead Sea deep cores: A window into past climate and seismicity

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Volumn 92, Issue 49, 2011, Pages 453-454

  Stein, Mordechai ^a   Ben Avraham, Zvi ^b   Goldstein, Steven L ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; DEEP DRILLING; DRILLING RIG; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOSEISMICITY; STONE AGE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 83655193054     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011EO490001     Document Type: Article

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