Holocene climate variability in the Levant from the Dead Sea pollen record

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 95-105

  Litt, Thomas ^a   Ohlwein, Christian ^a   Neumann, Frank H ^b   Hense, Andreas ^a   Stein, Mordechai ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Holocene; Near East; Paleoclimatology; Palynology; Quantitative cilmate reconstructions

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; BAYESIAN STATISTICS; CLIMATE CONDITION; CLIMATE CYCLE; DEAD SEA; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HOLOCENE CLIMATE VARIABILITY; HOLOCENES; HYDROLOGICAL CONDITION; LATE HOLOCENE; MODEL-BASED OPC; NATURAL VEGETATION; NEAR EAST; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN DATA; RAPID SHIFTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SHORT TIME INTERVALS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER COMPOSITION;

SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CYCLE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DESERT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HOLOCENE; NEOLITHIC; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER LEVEL; WATER QUALITY;

DEAD SEA; EN GEDI; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; OCCUPIED TERRITORIES; WEST BANK;

EID: 84864412881     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.06.012     Document Type: Article

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