Late Pleistocene temperature history of Southeast Africa: A TEX86 temperature recordfrom Lake Malawi

Late Pleistocene temperature history of Southeast Africa: A TEX86 temperature recordfrom Lake Malawi

Wepresent a TEX86-derived surfacewater temperature record for LakeMalawi that provides the first continuous continental record of temperature variability in the continental tropics spanning the past ~74 kyr with millennial-scale resolution. Average temperature duringMarine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5A was...

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Main Authors: Woltering, Martijn, Johnson, Thomas, Werne, Josef, Schouten, S., Damste, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier Science BV 2011
Subjects:
Past 75
Climate: temperature reconstruction
000 years
East Africa
Late Pleistocene
TEX86: Crenarchaeotal membrane lipids
Lake Malawi: lacustrine
Online Access:www.elsevier.com/locate/palaeo
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49734

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www.elsevier.com/locate/palaeo
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49734

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