Glacial millennial-scale fluctuations in central African precipitation recorded in terrigenous sediment supply and freshwater signals offshore Cameroon

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 197, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 323-333

  Adegbie, A T ^a   Schneider, R R ^b   Rohl U ^b   Wefer, G ^b  

^a Victoria Isl Lagos P M B   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate oscillation; Dansgaard Oeschger cycles; Fe Ca; Last glacial period; Monsoon precipitation; Stable oxygen isotopes

Indexed keywords

DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUATERNARY;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAMEROON;

GLOBIGERINOIDES; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER;

EID: 0042352407     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00474-7     Document Type: Article

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