The Climate History of the Eastern Mediterranean as Recorded in Mollusk Shells
Issue Date
1980-01-01Keywords
eastern Mediterranean regionhistory
ratios
O 18 O 16
oxygen
Mediterranean region
Holocene
biostratigraphy
stratigraphy
paleoclimatologyCenozoicQuaternaryC 14carbondatesisotopesradioactive isotopesshellsInvertebrataMolluscastable isotopesabsolute age
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Kaufman, A., & Magaritz, M. (1980). The climatic history of the eastern Mediterranean as recorded in mollusk shells. Radiocarbon, 22(3), 778-781.Publisher
American Journal of ScienceJournal
RadiocarbonDescription
From the 10th International Radiocarbon Conference held in Bern, Switzerland and Heidelberg, Germany, August 19-26, 1979.Additional Links
http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/Abstract
An 18O/16O versus 14C age curve was constructed for unrecrystallized Holocene marine shell samples from Israel that were shown to be homogeneous populations. The surprisingly large variation in the oxygen isotopic composition (1.2 per mil) between 2600 and 4000 years ago is most probably due to variations in the isotopic composition of the water. This implies that either the excess of evaporation over precipitation or the Nile river discharge must have varied significantly during the Holocene.Type
Proceedingstext