Systematic Mn fluctuations in laminated rock varnish developed on coeval early Holocene flint artifacts along a climatic transect, Negev desert, Israel

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 474-485

  Goldsmith, Yonaton ^a,b   Enzel, Yehouda ^a   Stein, Mordechai ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dust; Holocene; Mn fluctuations; Negev desert; Paleoclimate; PPNB; Rock varnish

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; CHEMICAL PROFILES; DESERT DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL; HOLOCENES; MN CONTENT; NEGEV DESERT; PALEOCLIMATES; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PPNB; SAMPLED SITES; WETTING CYCLES; WETTING-DRYING;

DUST; LANDFORMS; MANGANESE; RAIN; ROCKS; WETTING;

VARNISH;

ARTIFACT; DUST; HOLOCENE; MANGANESE; PALEOCLIMATE; PREHISTORIC; RAINFALL; WETTING;

ISRAEL; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 84867990809     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.07.009     Document Type: Article

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