A 300-kyr record of aridity and wind strength in southwestern Africa: Inferences from grain-size distributions of sediments on Walvis Ridge, SE Atlantic

Marine Geology

Volumn 180, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 221-233

  Stuut, Jan Berend W ^a,b,d   Prins, Maarten A ^c   Schneider, Ralph R ^d   Weltje, Gert Jan ^e   Fred Jansen, J H ^a   Postma, George ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aridity; Benguela upwelling; End member modelling; Eolian dust; Grain size; Trade wind

Indexed keywords

TERRIGENOUS FRACTION;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; RAIN; WIND EFFECTS;

SEDIMENTS;

ARIDITY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUATERNARY; UPWELLING; WIND VELOCITY;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037082620     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(01)00215-8     Document Type: Article

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