Sedimentary evolution and environmental history of Lake Van (Turkey) over the past 600 000 years

Sedimentology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1830-1861

  Stockhecke, Mona ^a,b   Sturm, Michael ^a   Brunner, Irene ^a   Schmincke, Hans Ulrich ^c   Sumita, Mari ^c   Kipfer, Rolf ^a,b   Cukur, Deniz ^c   Kwiecien, Ola ^a,b   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^a,d  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Continental archive; Eastern Anatolia; Glacial interglacial climate; ICDP project PALEOVAN; Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction; Varved lake sediments

Indexed keywords

ARGON; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAKES; LITHOLOGY; OXIC SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILT; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

CONTINENTAL ARCHIVE; EASTERN ANATOLIA; GLACIAL/INTERGLACIAL CLIMATE; ICDP PROJECT PALEOVAN; LAKE SEDIMENTS; PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS;

EID: 84907838297     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sed.12118     Document Type: Article

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