Reconstruction of MIS 5 climate in the central Levant using a stalagmite from Kanaan Cave, Lebanon

C Nehme; S Verheyden; SR Noble; AR Farrant; D Sahy; J Hellstrom; JJ Delannoy; P Claeys

Journal article

Reconstruction of MIS 5 climate in the central Levant using a stalagmite from Kanaan Cave, Lebanon

C Nehme, S Verheyden, SR Noble, AR Farrant, D Sahy, J Hellstrom, JJ Delannoy, P Claeys

Climate of the Past | COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.5194/cp-11-1785-2015

University of Melbourne Researchers

John Hellstrom Author Earth Sciences

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Awarded by Natural Environment Research Council

Funding Acknowledgements

This study was funded by the mobility fellowship programme of the Belgian Federal Scientific Policy (BELSPO), co-funded by the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission. We acknowledge EDYTEM Laboratory (UMR-5204 CNRS) and Saint-Joseph University for making stalagmites of Kanaan Cave available for analyses during this study. We would like to thank the support of ALES (Association Libanaise d'Etudes Speleologiques) members who accompanied us during field trips. Farrant and Noble publish with the approval of the Executive Director, British Geological Survey. We thank Thomas Goovaerts for sampling preparation, Daniel Condon for assisting with the uranium series analyses and Kevin De Bont for assisting in water analyses. We also thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and reviews.