Dust transport and synoptic conditions over the Sahara-Arabia deserts during the MIS6/5 and 2/1 transitions from grain-size, chemical and isotopic properties of Red Sea cores

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 382, Issue , 2013, Pages 125-139

  Palchan, D ^a,b   Stein, M ^b   Almogi Labin, A ^b   Erel, Y ^a   Goldstein, S L ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust; Emian; Holocene; Nd Sr; Paleoclimate; Red Sea

Indexed keywords

EMIAN; HOLOCENES; ND-SR; PALEOCLIMATES; RED SEA;

ARID REGIONS; DEEPWATER DRILLING; DUST; FLOODS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; MINERALS; STORMS; WIND;

UNDERWATER MINERALOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DUST; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GRAIN SIZE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MINERALOGY; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

ARABIAN SHIELD; EASTERN DESERT; EGYPT; ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS; INDIAN OCEAN; NUBIAN SHIELD; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; SAHARA;

EID: 84884933528     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.09.013     Document Type: Article

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