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

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

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

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

Publisher

London: Nature Publishing Group UK

Journal title

Nature (London), 2016-09, Vol.537 (7619), p.220-224

Language

English

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London: Nature Publishing Group UK

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Contents

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.
Palaeoclimate dynamics in tropical East Africa
Climate...

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

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1852654927

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1852654927

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ISSN

0028-0836

E-ISSN

1476-4687

DOI

10.1038/nature19065

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