East African lake evidence for Pliocene millennial-scale climate variability

Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 955-958

  Wilson, Katy E ^a   Maslin, Mark A ^a   Leng, Melanie J ^b,c   Kingston, John D ^d   Deino, Alan L ^e   Edgar, Robert K ^f   Mackay, Anson W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^f Harvard University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EAST AFRICANS; PLIOCENE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DIATOMITE; FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE;

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; KENYA; LAKE BARINGO; LAKE BOGORIA; RIFT VALLEY;

EID: 84909606289     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G35915.1     Document Type: Article

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