How dry was dry? - Late Pleistocene palaeoclimates in the Namib Desert

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 769-782

  Lancaster, Nicholas ^a  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN; RIVERS; RUNOFF;

PALAEOCLIMATES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ARIDITY; DESERT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL;

NAMIBIA;

EID: 0036211691     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(01)00126-3     Document Type: Article

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