Climate change: Late cenozoic moisture history of east Africa

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5743, 2005, Pages 2051-2053

  Trauth, Martin H ^a   Maslin, Mark A ^b   Deino, Alan ^c   Strecker, Manfred R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOLOGY; MOISTURE; SEDIMENTS;

ARIDIFICATION; CLIMATE TRANSITIONS; HUMID PERIODS; MAMMALS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CENOZOIC; EVOLUTION; PALEOCLIMATE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CENOZOIC; CHRONOLOGY; ETHIOPIA; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HOMINID; HOMO ERECTUS; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; KENYA; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MAMMAL; MOISTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TANZANIA;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

HOMINIDAE; HOMO ERECTUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 25444518505     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1112964     Document Type: Article

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