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Nature Geoscience 1, 650 - 651 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ngeo323

Subject Category: Palaeoclimate and palaeoceanography

Palaeoclimate: Africa on the edge

Peter B. deMenocal1

  1. Peter B. deMenocal is in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Geoscience 211, Route 9W, Palisades, New York 10964, USA.
    e-mail: peter@ldeo.columbia.edu


Saharan humidity has varied dramatically throughout the Pleistocene era. A new deep-sea sediment record reveals large and rapid hydrological shifts that are linked to the competing influences of low- and high-latitude climate processes.

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