Late Quaternary climate-ocean changes in western North Africa: Offshore geochemical evidence

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 34-52

  Haslett, Simon K ^a   Davies, Catherine F C ^a  

^a BATH SPA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African humid period; Geochemistry; Last glacial maximum; Late Quaternary palaeoclimate; ODP site 658; Saharan dust

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OCEANIC CURRENT; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 33645281174     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2006.00193.x     Document Type: Review

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