Climate dynamics during the penultimate glacial period recorded in a speleothem from Kanaan Cave, Lebanon (central Levant)

Carole Nehme; Sophie Verheyden; Sebastian FM Breitenbach; David P Gillikin; Anouk Verheyden; Hai Cheng; R Lawrence Edwards; John Hellstrom; Stephen R Noble; Andrew R Farrant; Diana Sahy; Thomas Goovaerts; Ghada Salem; Philippe Claeys

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Climate dynamics during the penultimate glacial period recorded in a speleothem from Kanaan Cave, Lebanon (central Levant)

Carole Nehme, Sophie Verheyden, Sebastian FM Breitenbach, David P Gillikin, Anouk Verheyden, Hai Cheng, R Lawrence Edwards, John Hellstrom, Stephen R Noble, Andrew R Farrant, Diana Sahy, Thomas Goovaerts, Ghada Salem, Philippe Claeys

Quaternary Research | CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS | Published : 2018

DOI: 10.1017/qua.2018.18

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John Hellstrom Author Earth Sciences

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Funding Acknowledgements

This study was funded by the mobility fellowship program of the Belgian Federal Scientific Policy (BELSPO). The U.S. National Science Foundation funded Union College's isotope ratio mass spectrometer and peripherals (NSF-MRI #1229258). We acknowledge the assistance of the EDYTEM Laboratory (UMR-5204 CNRS) and Saint-Joseph University for making stalagmites from 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, as well as Kevin de Bondt and David Verstraten for laboratory analyses. S.R. Noble, A.R. Farrant, and D. Sahy publish with the approval of the executive director, British Geological Survey. We also thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and reviews.