East Africam climate change and orbital forcing during the last 175 kyr BP

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 206, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 297-313

  Trauth, Martin H ^a   Deino, Alan L ^b   Bergner, Andreas G N ^a   Strecker, Manfred R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ar 40 Ar 39 dating; Geochronology; Lake sediments; Paleoclimate; Quaternary; Rift

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIATION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SOLAR RADIATION;

(EAST); AFRICA; KENYA; LAKE NAIVASHA;

EID: 0037441730     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)01105-6     Document Type: Article

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