Correlation between vegetation in Southwestern Africa and oceanic upwelling in the past 21,000 years

Quaternary Research

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 72-80

  Shi, Ning ^a   Dupont, Lydie M ^b   Beug, Hans Jürgen ^a   Schneider, Ralph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aridification; Dinoflagellate cyst; Interhemispheric asynchrony; Pollen; Southwestern Africa; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; DINOFLAGELLATE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; UPWELLING; VEGETATION HISTORY;

(SOUTHWEST); AFRICA;

EID: 0033872907     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.2000.2145     Document Type: Article

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