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Late Quaternary history of the Nile

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During the intertropical cold dry phase from ∼20,000 to 12,500 yr BP, the aggrading Nile was a braided, highly seasonal river. With a headwaters change to warmer, wetter conditions, it became an incised, sinuous, suspended load river. Overflow from Lake Victoria and severe floods in Egypt heralded the change in Nile regime.

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  1. School of Biological Science and Quaternary Research Unit, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, 2113, Australia

    D. A. Adamson

  2. School of Earth Science and Quaternary Research Unit, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, 2113, Australia

    M. A. J. Williams

  3. Ecole Normale Supérieure, 92260, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

    F. Gasse

  4. School of Geography, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB, UK

    F. A. Street

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Adamson, D., Gasse, F., Street, F. et al. Late Quaternary history of the Nile. Nature 288, 50–55 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/288050a0

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