Insolation and glacial-interglacial control on southwestern African hydroclimate over the past 140000 years

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 398, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-10

  Collins, James A ^a,b   Schefuß, Enno ^a   Govin, Aline ^a   Mulitza, Stefan ^a   Tiedemann, Ralf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

African palaeoclimate; Hydrogen and carbon isotopes; Leaf wax n alkane; Monsoonal precipitation; Namibia

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; VEGETATION;

CARBON ISOTOPES; MONSOONAL PRECIPITATION; N-ALKANES; NAMIBIA; PALAEOCLIMATE;

INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

CONGO BASIN; NAMIBIA;

POACEAE;

EID: 84900004042     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.04.034     Document Type: Article

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