A White Nile megalake during the last interglacial period

Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 163-166

  Barrows, Timothy T ^a   Williams, Martin A J ^b   Mills, Stephanie C ^c   Duller, GeoffA T ^d   Keith Fifield, L ^e   Haberlah, David ^b   Tims, Stephen G ^e   Williams, Frances M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LUMINESCENCE; WATER;

COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FRESH WATER LAKES; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAST INTERGLACIAL; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES;

LAKES;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FRESHWATER; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; INTERGLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MONSOON; PALEOCHANNEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SAVANNA; WOODLAND;

BLUE NILE [SUDAN]; SAHARA; SUDAN; WHITE NILE;

EID: 84937978683     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G35238.1     Document Type: Article

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