Ages of Quaternary pluvial episodes determined by uranium-series and radiocarbon dating of lacustrine deposits of Eastern Sahara

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology - Tập 113 - Trang 227-242 - 1995
B.J. Szabo1, C.V. Haynes2,3, T.A. Maxwell4
1U.S. Geological Survey, MS 974, Box 25046, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA
2Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
3Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA
4Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

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