Communications Earth & Environment (Mar 2022)

The unexpectedly short Holocene Humid Period in Northern Arabia

  • Ina Neugebauer,
  • Michèle Dinies,
  • Birgit Plessen,
  • Nadine Dräger,
  • Achim Brauer,
  • Helmut Brückner,
  • Peter Frenzel,
  • Gerd Gleixner,
  • Philipp Hoelzmann,
  • Kim J. Krahn,
  • Anna Pint,
  • Valérie F. Schwab,
  • Anja Schwarz,
  • Rik Tjallingii,
  • Max Engel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00368-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The Holocene Humid Period in Northern Arabia may only have lasted for less than 1000 years and was characterised by substantial regional climatic variability, according to a high-resolution multi-proxy varved lake record from Tayma, Saudi Arabia.