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Caley, Thibaut; Extier, Thomas; Collins, James A.; Schefuss, Enno; Dupont, Lydie; Malaize, Bruno; Rossignol, Linda; Souron, Antoine; Mcclymont, Erin L.; Jimenez-espejo, Francisco J.; Garcia-comas, Carmen; Eynaud, Frederique; Martinez, Philippe; Roche, Didier M.; Jorry, Stephan; Charlier, Karine; Wary, Melanie; Gourves, Pierre-yves; Billy, Isabelle; Giraudeau, Jacques. |
The past two million years of eastern African climate variability is currently poorly constrained, despite interest in understanding its assumed role in early human evolution1,2,3,4. Rare palaeoclimate records from northeastern Africa suggest progressively drier conditions2,5 or a stable hydroclimate6. By contrast, records from Lake Malawi in tropical southeastern Africa reveal a trend of a progressively wetter climate over the past 1.3 million years7,8. The climatic forcings that controlled these past hydrological changes are also a matter of debate. Some studies suggest a dominant local insolation forcing on hydrological changes9,10,11, whereas others infer a potential influence of sea surface temperature changes in the Indian Ocean8,12,13. Here we show... |
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Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00449/56059/57581.pdf |
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Bayon, Germain; Schefuss, Enno; Dupont, Lydie; Borges, Alberto V.; Dennielou, Bernard; Lambert, Thibault; Mollenhauer, Gesine; Monin, Laurence; Ponzevera, Emmanuel; Skonieczny, Charlotte; Andre, Luc. |
There is increasing evidence that abrupt vegetation shifts and large-scale erosive phases occurred in Central Africa during the third millennium before present. Debate exists as to whether these events were caused by climate change and/or intensifying human activities related to the Bantu expansion. In this study, we report on a multi-proxy investigation of a sediment core (KZR-23) recovered from the Congo submarine canyon. Our aim was to reconstruct climate, erosion and vegetation patterns in the Congo Basin for the last 10,000 yrs, with a particular emphasis on the late Holocene period. Samples of modern riverine suspended particulates were also analyzed to characterize sediment source geochemical signatures from across the Congo watershed. We find that... |
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Palavras-chave: Neodymium isotopes; Suspended particulates; Congo Basin; ENSO; Human land-use; Deforestation. |
Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00463/57467/59747.pdf |
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