Late Pliocene climate changes documented in seismic and palynology data at the southwest African Margin

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-39

  Weigelt, Estella ^a   Dupont, Lydie ^b   Uenzelmann Neben, Gabriele ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cape Basin; Northern Hemisphere Glaciation; palynology; Pliocene Pleistocene; sea level; seismostratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEA LEVEL; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAPE BASIN; NAMIBIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 48549101187     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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