Reconstructing paleoenvironments in the Western Desert, Egypt: ESR dating freshwater molluscs from kharga oasis

ACS Symposium Series

Volumn 1147, Issue , 2013, Pages 321-364

  Skinner, Anne R ^a,b   Blackwell, Bonnie A B ^a,b   Kleindienst, Maxine R ^c   Smith, Jennifer R ^d   Kieniewicz, Johanna M ^d   Adelsberger, Katherine A ^d,e   Rufus Churcher, C S ^c   Deely, Aislinn E ^b   Mashriqi, Faizullah ^b   Spiller, Kassandra V ^a   Blickstein, Joel I B ^a,b   Gong, Jane J J ^b   Long, Rebecca A ^b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b RFK Science Research Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e KNOX COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; ISOTOPES; LAKES; LANDFORMS; WATER;

FRESH WATER LAKES; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; MOLLUSC SHELLS; NATURALLY OCCURRING; PALEOENVIRONMENTS; PLEISTOCENE; WESTERN DESERT; WESTERN DESERT , EGYPT;

MOLLUSCS;

EID: 84905367864     PISSN: 00976156     EISSN: 19475918     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1021/bk-2013-1147.ch019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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