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标题：Glacial Quaternary of the Levant from speleothems, lakes and loess
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作者：Amos Frumkin ; Sorin Lisker ; Anton Vaks 等
期刊名称：Landform Analysis
印刷版ISSN：1429-799X
电子版ISSN：2081-5980
出版年度：2007
卷号：5
页码：30-31
出版社：Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe
摘要：Speleothems, lake levels and loess data have been collected and radiometrically dated, providing a comprehensive insight of climate change in the Levant during the last 300,000 years. In the Mediterranean climatic belt, glacial peri- ods were generally cool, wet and dusty. Lake levels were high; speleothems were deposited in presently Mediterranean and semi-arid zones; thick loess beds were deposited. Interglacial periods in the Mediter- ranean climatic belt were mostly drier, warmer, with less dust deposition. Lake levels were low. In the arid zone of the northern Saharan belt, conditions were mostly dry, during both glacial and interglacial periods. However, short wetter epi- sodes occurred mainly during previous interglacial periods, at marine isotope stages 5, 7, and 9. Clima- tic variability of the Levant is highest during inter- glacial periods, especially at the onset of these periods.