Pronounced Northwest African Monsoon Discharge During the Mid- to Late Holocene

Pronounced Northwest African Monsoon Discharge During the Mid- to Late Holocene

The mid- to late Holocene aridification pattern of NW Africa remains a matter of controversial debate. While many marine climate reconstructions indicate a relatively abrupt aridification at ∼5.5 ka BP, terrestrial palaeoclimate records rather show a spatially and temporally heterogeneous transition...

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Main Authors: Sebastian N. Höpker, Henry C. Wu, Peter Müller, Jean-Paul Barusseau, Robert Vernet, Friedrich Lucassen, Simone A. Kasemann, Hildegard Westphal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
Subjects:
African Humid Period
Mauritania
sclerochronology
bivalves
fish otoliths
archaeology
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2019.00314/full

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