Dead Sea drawdown and monsoonal impacts in the Levant during the last interglacial

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 412, Issue , 2015, Pages 235-244

  Torfstein, Adi ^a,b,c   Goldstein, Steven L ^a,d   Kushnir, Yochanan ^a   Enzel, Yehouda ^b   Haug, Gerald ^e   Stein, Mordechai ^f  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

African monsoon; Dead Sea; Last interglacial; Levant; Paleoclimate; Sapropel

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BIOMINERALIZATION; DEPOSITION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LAKES; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; WATERSHEDS;

AFRICAN MONSOONS; DEAD SEA; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LEVANT; PALEOCLIMATES; SAPROPEL;

CHLORIDE MINERALS;

ARIDITY; DEPOSITION; DRAWDOWN; FLOOD DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; HUMIDITY; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; SAPROPEL;

DEAD SEA; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

ANTHOZOA; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84920911815     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.12.013     Document Type: Article

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