Past environmental and climatic changes during the last 7200 cal yr BP in Adamawa plateau (Northern-Cameroun) based on fossil diatoms and sedimentary carbon isotopic records from Lake Mbalang

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1371-1393

  Nguetsop, V F ^a,b   Bentaleb, I ^b   Favier, C ^b   Martin, C ^b   Bietrix, S ^b   Giresse, P ^c   Servant Vildary, S ^d   Servant, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DIATOM; FOSSIL RECORD; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; RAINFALL; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONALITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION TYPE; WATER COLUMN;

ADAMAOUA; CAMEROON; LAKE MBALANG;

EID: 83755170580     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-1371-2011     Document Type: Article

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