Late Pleistocene temperature history of Southeast Africa: A TEX86 temperature record from Lake Malawi

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 303, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 93-102

  Woltering, Martijn ^a   Johnson, Thomas C ^a   Werne, Josef P ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^b   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate: temperature reconstruction; East Africa; Lake Malawi: lacustrine; Late Pleistocene; Past 75,000years; TEX86: Crenarchaeotal membrane lipids

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; SURFACE WATER; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPICAL REGION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE MALAWI;

EID: 79953161143     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.02.013     Document Type: Article

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