Evidences for centennial dry periods at ~3300 and ~2800 cal. yr BP from micro-facies analyses of the Dead Sea sediments

Holocene

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1358-1371

  Neugebauer, Ina ^a   Brauer, Achim ^a   Schwab, Markus J ^a   Dulski, Peter ^a   Frank, Ute ^a   Hadzhiivanova, Elitsa ^b   Kitagawa, Hiroyuki ^c   Litt, Thomas ^d   Schiebel, Vera ^d   Taha, Nimer ^b   Waldmann, Nicolas D ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

dry periods; extreme events; ICDP Dead Sea drilling; Levant palaeoclimate; micro facies; varve chronology

Indexed keywords

DUST; EXTREME EVENT; FLASH FLOOD; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROFACIES; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; TEMPORAL PERIOD; VARVE;

DEAD SEA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84936804520     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683615584208     Document Type: Article

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