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A GOOD deal of information on late Quaternary moist periods in East Africa and Australia, derived largely from the dating and analysis of lake sediments, has been collected over recent years1–4. Although fossil lake beds have long been known to exist in Arabia5–7, they have received scant attention. I report here the results of a preliminary attempt to establish the age of a series of late Quaternary lake sediments in the Rub' al Khali desert of the Arabian Peninsula. More detailed palaeoclimatic implications will be considered elsewhere later.
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McCLURE, H. Radiocarbon chronology of late Quaternary lakes in the Arabian Desert. Nature 263, 755–756 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/263755a0
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