Organic geochemical records of environmental variability in Lake Malawi during the last 700 years, Part I: The TEX86 temperature record

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 303, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 133-139

  Powers, Lindsay A ^a   Johnson, Thomas C ^a   Werne, Josef P ^a   Castañeda, Isla S ^a,b   Hopmans, Ellen C ^b   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^b,c   Schouten, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Archaea; Climate change; Paleoclimate; Paleothermometer

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROKARYOTE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WATER; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE MALAWI;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 79953162990     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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