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

T. C. Johnson (), J. P. Werne, E. T. Brown, A. Abbott, M. Berke, B. A. Steinman, J. Halbur, S. Contreras, S. Grosshuesch, A. Deino, C. A. Scholz, R. P. Lyons, S. Schouten and J. S. Sinninghe Damsté
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T. C. Johnson: University of Minnesota Duluth
J. P. Werne: University of Pittsburgh
E. T. Brown: University of Minnesota Duluth
A. Abbott: Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney
M. Berke: University of Notre Dame
B. A. Steinman: University of Minnesota Duluth
J. Halbur: University of Minnesota Duluth
S. Contreras: Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
S. Grosshuesch: University of Minnesota Duluth
A. Deino: Berkeley Geochronology Center
C. A. Scholz: Syracuse University, 011a Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse
R. P. Lyons: Syracuse University, 011a Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse
S. Schouten: NIOZ Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and Utrecht University
J. S. Sinninghe Damsté: NIOZ Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and Utrecht University

Nature, 2016, vol. 537, issue 7619, 220-224

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2016
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