Orbital forcing of climate over South Africa: A 200,000-year rainfall record from the Pretoria Saltpan

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1125-1133

  Partridge, T C ^a   Demenocal, P B ^d   Lorentz, S A ^b   Paiker, M J ^a   Vogel, J C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORBITAL FORCING; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; RAINFALL;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0031410349     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(97)00005-X     Document Type: Article

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