Tropical East African climate change and its relation to global climate: A record from Lake Tanganyika, Tropical East Africa, over the past 90+kyr

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 303, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 155-167

  Burnett, Allison P ^a   Soreghan, Michael J ^b   Scholz, Christopher A ^a   Brown, Erik T ^c  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

East Africa; Intertropical convergence zone; Lake Tanganyika; Paleolimnology; Quaternary; Rift lakes; Tropical paleoclimate; XRF

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LAKE LEVEL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENT CORE; TROPICAL REGION; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE MALAWI; LAKE TANGANYIKA;

EID: 79953152440     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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