Impacts of abrupt climate changes in the Levant from Last Glacial Dead Sea levels

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 69, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-7

  Torfstein, Adi ^a   Goldstein, Steven L ^a,b   Stein, Mordechai ^c   Enzel, Yehouda ^d  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea; Lake levels; Lake Lisan; Levant paleoclimate; Millennial scale climate change

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE; DEAD SEA; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; HYDROLOGICAL CONDITION; LAKE LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS; LAKE LEVELS; PALEOCLIMATES; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROPS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MOISTURE; SEA LEVEL;

LAKES;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CYCLOGENESIS; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ARCTIC; DEAD SEA; GREENLAND; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84872304952     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.02.015     Document Type: Article

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