Punctuated aridity in southern Africa during the last glacial cycle: The chronology of linear dune construction in the northeastern Kalahari

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 137, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 305-322

  Stokes, S ^a   Haynes, G ^b   Thomas, D S G ^c   Horrocks, J L ^a,d   Higginson, M ^a   Malifa, M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Geochronology; Kalahari Desert; Linear dunes; Optical dating; Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN PROCESSES; ARIDITY; DUNE CONSTRUCTION; LAST GLACIAL; PALAEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY CLIMATE;

AFRICA, KALAHARI DESERT;

VICTORIA;

EID: 0032032674     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00106-5     Document Type: Article

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