Climatic and volcanic forcing revealed in a 50,000-year diatom record from Lake Massoko, Tanzania

Quaternary Research

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 368-376

  Barker, Philip ^a   Williamson, David ^b   Gasse, Françoise ^b   Gibert, Elisabeth ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; DIATOM; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ASH;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; FRAXINUS;

EID: 0348207853     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2003.07.001     Document Type: Article

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