Decadal record of climate variability spanning the past 700 yr in the Southern Tropics of East Africa

Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 83-86

  Johnson, Thomas C ^a   Barry, Sylvia L ^a,c   Chan, Yvonne ^a   Wilkinson, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Lake sediments; Little Ice Age; Paleoclimate; Tropical climate

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SILICA; TROPICS;

AFRICA; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATES; TROPICAL CLIMATES;

LAKES;

BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; CLIMATE VARIATION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AFRICA; LAKE MALAWI;

EID: 0035239060     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0083:DROCVS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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