Late Holocene Paleoclimatic changes in Western Central Africa inferred from mineral abundance in dated sediments from Lake Ossa (Southwest Cameroon)

Quaternary Research

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 275-287

  Wirrmann, Denis ^a   Bertaux, Jacques ^a   Kossoni, Alice ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b Université de Yaoundé I   (United States)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Detrital fluxes; FTIR mineral quantification; Late Holocene; Paleoclimatic changes; Western and Central Atlantic Africa

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MINERALOGY; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT;

CAMEROON; LAKE OSSA;

POACEAE;

EID: 0035470762     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.2001.2240     Document Type: Article

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