Influence of tropical easterlies in southern Africa's winter rainfall zone during the Holocene

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 107, Issue , 2015, Pages 138-148

  Chase, Brian M ^a,b   Lim, Sophak ^a   Chevalier, Manuel ^a   Boom, Arnoud ^c   Carr, Andrew S ^c   Meadows, Michael E ^d   Reimer, Paula J ^e  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Holocene; Palaeoclimate; Pollen; Quaternary; Rock hyrax midden; Southern Africa; 13C; 15N

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES; TROPICS;

HOLOCENES; PALAEOCLIMATE; POLLEN; QUATERNARY; SOUTHERN AFRICA;

RAIN;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; HUMIDITY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MIDDEN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

PROCAVIA CAPENSIS;

EID: 84909619759     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.10.011     Document Type: Article

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