Freshwater on the route of hominids out of Africa revealed by U-Th in Red Sea corals

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1067-1070

  Lazar, Boaz ^a   Stein, Mordechai ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL AQUIFERS; CORAL REEF; HUMAN CULTURES; LAST INTERGLACIAL; PHREATIC; RED SEA;

AQUIFERS; ARID REGIONS; CARBONATE MINERALS; HYDROGEOLOGY; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); REEFS;

WATER;

ARAGONITE; CALCITE; COASTAL AQUIFER; CORAL REEF; HOMINID; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MIGRATION; PHREATIC ZONE; RECRYSTALLIZATION; UPLIFT; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

AFRICA;

ANTHOZOA; HOMINIDAE;

EID: 84857492566     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32257.1     Document Type: Article

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