Cainozoic environmental change in southern Africa, with special emphasis on the last 200 000 years

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-22

  Partridge, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cainozoic palaeoclimates; Climate change; Orbital forcing; Sea surface temperatures; Southern Africa; Tectonic uplift

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ORBITAL FORCING; TECTONICS;

AFRICA, (SOUTHERN);

EID: 0031443245     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030913339702100102     Document Type: Article

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