Antiphasing between rainfall in Africa's Rift Valley and North America's Great Basin

Quaternary Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 12-20

  Broecker, Wallace S ^a   Peteet, Dorothy ^a,b   Hajdas, Irena ^c   Lin, Jo ^d   Clark, Elizabeth ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN; BOLLING; INSOLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN RIFT VALLEY; GREAT BASIN; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032418181     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1998.1973     Document Type: Article

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