Molecular records of climate variability and vegetation response since the Late Pleistocene in the Lake Victoria basin, East Africa

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 55, Issue , 2012, Pages 59-74

  Berke, Melissa A ^a   Johnson, Thomas C ^a   Werne, Josef P ^a,b,c   Grice, Kliti ^c   Schouten, Stefan ^d   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Africa; Compound specific hydrogen and carbon isotopes; ENSO; Insolation forcing; Monsoonal precipitation; TEX 86 temperatures; Tropical paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CARBON ISOTOPES; ENSO; INSOLATION FORCING; MONSOONAL PRECIPITATION; PALEOCLIMATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; HYDROGEN; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; ISOTOPES; RAIN; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

LAKES;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIOCARBON DATING; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VEGETATION HISTORY;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE VICTORIA;

EID: 84867910182     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.08.014     Document Type: Article

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