Aridification of the Sahara desert caused by Tethys Sea shrinkage during the Late Miocene

Nature

Volumn 513, Issue 7518, 2014, Pages 401-404

  Zhang, Zhongshi ^a,b   Ramstein, Gilles ^c   Schuster, Mathieu ^d   Li, Camille ^a   Contoux, Camille ^a   Yan, Qing ^b  

^a BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c DIF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; ARIDITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLORA; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIATION; MIOCENE; ORBITAL FORCING; PLEISTOCENE; SHRINKAGE; TETHYS;

ARIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CHATTIAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESERT; DESERT CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FAUNA; FLORA; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERGLACIAL; MIDDLE MIOCENE; NORTH AFRICA; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SUMMER; TORTONIAN; UPPER MIOCENE; AFRICA; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; HISTORY; HOMINID; ICE COVER; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

NORTH AFRICA; SAHARA;

RAIN;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DESERT CLIMATE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; ICE COVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; RAIN; SEASONS;

EID: 84907796428     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13705     Document Type: Article

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