Speleothem-based paleoclimate record from northern Oman

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 499-502

  Burns, Stephen J ^a   Matter, Albert ^a   Frank, Norbert ^b   Mangini, Augusto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; ISOTOPES; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; THORIUM ALLOYS; URANIUM ALLOYS;

CONTINENTAL AREA; EARLY HOLOCENE; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MARINE SEDIMENTS; MONSOON WINDS; PALEOCLIMATE RECORDS; STABLE ISOTOPES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

PALAEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SPELEOTHEM; URANIUM-THORIUM DATING;

OMAN;

EID: 84879889442     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0499:SBPRFN>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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