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A progressively wetter climate in southern East Africa over the past 1.3 million years

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  • T. C. Johnson

    (University of Minnesota Duluth
    University of Massachusetts Amherst)

  • J. P. Werne

    (University of Pittsburgh)

  • E. T. Brown

    (University of Minnesota Duluth)

  • A. Abbott

    (Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney)

  • M. Berke

    (University of Notre Dame)

  • B. A. Steinman

    (University of Minnesota Duluth)

  • J. Halbur

    (University of Minnesota Duluth)

  • S. Contreras

    (Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción)

  • S. Grosshuesch

    (University of Minnesota Duluth)

  • A. Deino

    (Berkeley Geochronology Center)

  • C. A. Scholz

    (Syracuse University, 011a Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse)

  • R. P. Lyons

    (Syracuse University, 011a Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse
    †Present address: Chevron Corporation, 1400 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, USA.)

  • S. Schouten

    (NIOZ Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and Utrecht University
    Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University)

  • J. S. Sinninghe Damsté

    (NIOZ Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and Utrecht University
    Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University)

Abstract

A 1.3-million-year-long climate history from the Lake Malawi basin in eastern Africa displays a trend towards progressively wetter conditions superimposed on strong 100,000-year eccentricity cycles of temperature and rainfall since the Mid-Pleistocene Transition around 900,000 years ago.

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  • T. C. Johnson & J. P. Werne & E. T. Brown & A. Abbott & M. Berke & B. A. Steinman & J. Halbur & S. Contreras & S. Grosshuesch & A. Deino & C. A. Scholz & R. P. Lyons & S. Schouten & J. S. Sinninghe Da, 2016. "A progressively wetter climate in southern East Africa over the past 1.3 million years," Nature, Nature, vol. 537(7619), pages 220-224, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:537:y:2016:i:7619:d:10.1038_nature19065
    DOI: 10.1038/nature19065
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