Closing of the Indonesian seaway as a precursor to east African aridification around 3-4 million years ago

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6834, 2001, Pages 157-162

  Cane, Mark A ^a   Molnar, Peter ^b,c  

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

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; OCEAN CURRENTS; RAIN;

HOMINIDS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ICE; RAIN; SEA WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT TRANSFER; INDONESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; WATER FLOW;

AFRICA, EASTERN; COLD CLIMATE; DESERT CLIMATE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; ICE; INDIAN OCEAN; INDONESIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEW GUINEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; RAIN; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE;

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 0035837254     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35075500     Document Type: Article

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