The utility of desert sand dunes as Quaternary chronostratigraphic archives: Evidence from the northeast Rub' al Khali

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 78, Issue , 2013, Pages 303-318

  Leighton, Carly L ^a   Bailey, Richard M ^a   Thomas, David S G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Optically stimulated luminescence; Quaternary climate change; Sand dune; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; QUATERNARY CLIMATE; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SAND DUNES; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLIMATE CHANGE; LUMINESCENCE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

LANDFORMS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CHRONOLOGY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DESERT; DUNE; HIATUS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; SOFTWARE;

RUB AL KHALI; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 84885176807     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.04.016     Document Type: Article

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