Rapid environmental change in African and South American tropics around 4000 years before present: A review

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 66, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 217-260

  Marchant, Robert ^a   Hooghiemstra, Henry ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

4000 years BP; Africa; Atlantic; El Ni o; Palaeoecology; South America; Tropics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL REGION; VEGETATION HISTORY;

AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 3242737701     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2004.01.003     Document Type: Article

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