Climatic change recorded in the sediments of the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia, during the last 45,000 years

Quaternary International

Volumn 274, Issue , 2012, Pages 25-37

  Foerster, Verena ^a   Junginger, Annett ^c   Langkamp, Oliver ^a   Gebru, Tsige ^a   Asrat, Asfawossen ^d   Umer, Mohammed ^d   Lamb, Henry F ^e   Wennrich, Volker ^b   Rethemeyer, Janet ^b   Nowaczyk, Norbert ^f   Trauth, Martin H ^c   Schaebitz, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Institute of Geology and Mineralogy   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^e ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ETHIOPIA;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84866004597     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.06.028     Document Type: Article

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