Long-term freshening of the Dead Sea brine revealed by porewater Cl- and δO18 in ICDP Dead Sea deep-drill

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 400, Issue , 2014, Pages 94-101

  Lazar, B ^a   Sivan, O ^b   Yechieli, Y ^c   Levy, E J ^b   Antler, G ^d   Gavrieli, I ^c   Stein, M ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chloride; Dead Sea; Late Quarternary; Oxygen isotopes; Paleolimnology; Pore brine profiles

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHLORINE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; EVAPORATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GYPSUM; ISOTOPES; LAKES; MIXING; OXYGEN; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; SHOCK TUBES; TURBULENT FLOW;

CHLORIDE; DEAD SEA; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PORE BRINE PROFILES; QUARTER-NARY;

BRINES;

BRINE; CHINESE CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLING PROJECT; CHLORIDE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; QUATERNARY;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 84901838098     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.03.019     Document Type: Article

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