Rock varnish evidence for a Younger Dryas wet period in the Dead Sea basin

• Main Authors: Liu, Tanzhuo, Broecker, Wallace S., Stein, Mordechai
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Columbia University 2013
• Subjects: Paleoclimatology; Geophysics; Glacial Lake; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8dj5rns; https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8DJ5RNS

Rock varnish from 14.6 to 13.2 ka recessional shorelines of late glacial Lake Lisan and fan delta surfaces between 280 and 365 m bmsl (meters below mean sea level) along the western margins of the Dead Sea contains replicable layering patterns, characterized by a low Mn and Ba orange/yellow surface...