Lithology of the long sediment record recovered by the ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 102, Issue , 2014, Pages 149-165

  Neugebauer, Ina ^a   Brauer, Achim ^a   Schwab, Markus J ^a   Waldmann, Nicolas D ^b,c   Enzel, Yehouda ^d   Kitagawa, Hiroyuki ^e   Torfstein, Adi ^d,f   Frank, Ute ^a   Dulski, Peter ^a   Agnon, Amotz ^d   Ariztegui, Daniel ^g   Ben Avraham, Zvi ^b,h   Goldstein, Steven L ⁱ   Stein, Mordechai ^j  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^h TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

ⁱ International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^j GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

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Author keywords

Hypersaline lakes; ICDP Dead sea deep drilling project; Laminated sediments; Levant paleoclimate; Sediment facies

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; INFILL DRILLING; LAKES; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

DEEP DRILLING; HYPERSALINE LAKES; LAMINATED SEDIMENTS; PALEOCLIMATES; SEDIMENT FACIES;

SEDIMENTS;

DEEP DRILLING; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FACIES; HOLOCENE; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; OCEAN BASIN; OUTCROP; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; WATER DEPTH;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 84908166752     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.08.013     Document Type: Article

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