Palaeoenvironmental inferences from late Quaternary sediments of the Al Jafr Basin, Jordan

Quaternary International

Volumn 382, Issue , 2015, Pages 154-167

  Mischke, Steffen ^a   Opitz, Stephan ^b   Kalbe, Johannes ^c   Ginat, Hanan ^d   Al Saqarat, Bety ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d Tamar Regional Council   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Eastern mediterranean; Late pleistocene; Marine isotope stage 3; Ostracoda; Southern levant; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MINERALOGY; OSTRACOD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WETLAND;

JORDAN; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

CANDONA NEGLECTA; CHARALES; CRUSTACEA; HERPETOCYPRIS BREVICAUDATA; HETEROCYPRIS SALINA; ILYOCYPRIS BRADYI; MOLLUSCA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 84941809144     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.12.041     Document Type: Article

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