Mid- to late Holocene Indian Ocean Monsoon variability recorded in four speleothems from Socotra Island, Yemen

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 129-142

  Van Rampelbergh, Maïté ^a   Fleitmann, Dominik ^b   Verheyden, Sophie ^a,c   Cheng, Hai ^d,e   Edwards, Lawrence ^e   De Geest, Peter ^f   De Vleeschouwer, David ^a   Burns, Stephen J ^g   Matter, Albert ^b   Claeys, Philippe ^a   Keppens, Eddy ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f not available   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Indian Ocean Monsoon; Paleoclimate; Socotra; Speleothems; Stable isotopes; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; TRACE ELEMENTS; WIND;

INDIAN OCEAN MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATES; SOCOTRA; SPELEOTHEMS; STABLE ISOTOPES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

CALCITE; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPE; STALAGMITE;

HADRAMAWT; OMAN; SOCOTRA; YEMEN;

EID: 84873937106     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.01.016     Document Type: Article

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