NEW PALEOENVIRONMENTAL DATA FOR THE LATE QUATERNARY OF MAKNASSY BASIN(CENTRAL TUNISIA)

Authors
OUDA B ZOUARI K BENOUEZDOU H CHKIR N CAUSSE C
Citation
B. Ouda et al., NEW PALEOENVIRONMENTAL DATA FOR THE LATE QUATERNARY OF MAKNASSY BASIN(CENTRAL TUNISIA), Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie 2. Sciences de la terre et des planetes, 326(12), 1998, pp. 855-861
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie 2. Sciences de la terre et des planetes → ACNP
ISSN journal
12518050
Volume
326
Issue
12
Year of publication
1998
Pages
855 - 861
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8050(1998)326:12<855:NPDFTL>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
Sedimentary deposits outcropping on the Wadi Leben and Wadi Ben Sellam banks in the Maknassy Basin (central Tunisia) have registered paleocl imatic variations and particularly humid episodes, already known for U pper Pleistocene and Holocene, in present hyperarid areas of northern Sahara. A pluridisciplinary study, including prehistory, sedimentology , mineralogy, ecology and radiochronology (C-14, uranium-thorium [U-Th ]), improves the comprehension of paleoenvironmental interpretations a nd makes it possible to precisely determine the chronological framewor k of humid episodes during the Upper Quaternary in Tunisia. (C) Academ ie des sciences/Elsevier, Paris.