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Africa on the edge

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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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Figure 1: Past controls on African climate.

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  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. peter@ldeo.columbia.edu,

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