Barker, Philip A. and Brown, E. and Johnson, T. C. and McManus, J. (2002) A High Resolution Paleoclimate Record Spanning the Past 25,000 Years in Southern East Africa. Science, 296. pp. 113-132. ISSN 0036-8075
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High-resolution profiles of the mass accumulation rate of biogenic silica and other geochemical proxies in two piston cores from northern Lake Malawi provide a climate signal for this part of tropical Africa spanning the past 25,000 years. The biogenic silica mass accumulation rate was low during the relatively dry late Pleistocene, when the river flux of silica to the lake was suppressed. Millennial-scale fluctuations, due to upwelling intensity, in the late Pleistocene climate of the Lake Malawi basin appear to have been closely linked to the Northern Hemisphere climate until 11 thousand years ago. Relatively cold conditions in the Northern Hemisphere coincided with more frequent north winds over the Malawi basin, perhaps resulting from a more southward migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Science |
| Additional Information: | The Malawi drilling project was led by Johnson (Minnesota) who obtained the NSF funding. Barker and Gasse(Aix-en-Provence) produced and interpreted the diatom data. Barker contributed to the palaeoclimate implications of these data that were pivotal to the reconstruction. RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) |
| Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > Lancaster Environment Centre |
| ID Code: | 2161 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer |
| Deposited On: | 07 Apr 2008 16:22 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 15:49 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/2161 |
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