Century-to-millennial scale climatic variability in Lake Malawi revealed by isotope records

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 261, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 93-103

  Barker, Philip A ^a   Leng, Melanie J ^b,c   Gasse, Françoise ^d   Huang, Yongsong ^e  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

deuterium; diatoms; isotopes; Malawi; oxygen; palaeoclimate; palmitic acid

Indexed keywords

DIATOMS; PALMITIC ACID; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DEUTERIUM; EVAPORATION; OXYGEN; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THERMAL GRADIENTS; WIND;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEUTERIUM; DIATOM; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE MALAWI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 34548257318     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.06.010     Document Type: Article

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