Contribution of an accurate growth rate reconstruction of a stalagmite from the kanaan cave-lebanon to the understanding of humidity variations in the levant during the MIS 5

Geologica Belgica

Volumn 18, Issue 2-4, 2015, Pages 102-108

  Nehme, Carole ^a,b   Verheyden, Sophie ^a   Noble, Stephen ^c   Farrant, Andrew ^c   Delannoy, Jean Jacques ^b  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Growth rate; Kanaan cave; Lebanon; MIS 5; Palaeoclimate; Stalagmite

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937707416     PISSN: 13748505     EISSN: 20341954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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