Aridification of the Sahara desert caused by Tethys Sea shrinkage during the Late Miocene

Zhongshi Zhang (), Gilles Ramstein, Mathieu Schuster, Camille Li, Camille Contoux and Qing Yan
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Zhongshi Zhang: Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Uni Research Climate, Allégaten 70, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Gilles Ramstein: Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, UMR8212, Orme des Merisiers, CE Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Mathieu Schuster: Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg (UMR 7516), École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, CNRS and Université de Strasbourg, 1 rue Blessig, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
Camille Li: Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Allégaten 70, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Camille Contoux: Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Uni Research Climate, Allégaten 70, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Qing Yan: Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Nature, 2014, vol. 513, issue 7518, 401-404

Abstract: The drying of the Tethys Sea—the progenitor of the modern Mediterranean, Black and Caspian seas—weakened the northern extension of the African monsoon and led to the creation of the Sahara desert about 7 million years ago.

Date: 2014
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