Reconstructing the duration of the West African Monsoon season from growth patterns and isotopic signals of shells of Anadara senilis (Saloum Delta, Senegal)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 346-347, Issue , 2012, Pages 145-152

  Azzoug, Moufok ^a   Carré, Matthieu ^a   Schauer, Andrew J ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Mollusk; Paleoclimate; Sclerochronology; Stable isotopes; West African Monsoon

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BIVALVE; CHRONOLOGY; DELTA; FOSSIL RECORD; GROWTH RATE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECISION; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONALITY; SHELL; STABLE ISOTOPE;

FATICK; SALOUM DELTA; SENEGAL; WEST AFRICA;

ANADARA; ANADARA SIMILIS; ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 84863432074     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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