Micro-XRF core scanning in palaeolimnology: recent developments

SJ Davies, HF Lamb, SJ Roberts - Micro-XRF studies of sediment cores …, 2015 - Springer
Within the last ten years, micro-XRF (µXRF) core scanning has become an important
addition to the suite of techniques for investigating lacustrine sediments. Most studies to date …

[HTML][HTML] East African climate pulses and early human evolution

MA Maslin, CM Brierley, AM Milner, S Shultz… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Current evidence suggests that all of the major events in hominin evolution have occurred in
East Africa. Over the last two decades, there has been intensive work undertaken to …

[HTML][HTML] Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution

V Foerster, A Asrat, C Bronk Ramsey, ET Brown… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite more than half a century of hominin fossil discoveries in eastern Africa, the regional
environmental context of hominin evolution and dispersal is not well established due to the …

The magnitude, timing and abruptness of changes in North African dust deposition over the last 20,000 yr

D McGee, PB deMenocal, G Winckler, JBW Stuut… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
Reconstructions of eolian dust accumulation in northwest African margin sediments provide
important continuous records of past changes in atmospheric circulation and aridity in the …

[HTML][HTML] North–south palaeohydrological contrasts in the central Mediterranean during the Holocene: tentative synthesis and working hypotheses

M Magny, N Combourieu-Nebout… - Climate of the …, 2013 - cp.copernicus.org
On the basis of a multi-proxy approach and a strategy combining lacustrine and marine
records along a north–south transect, data collected in the central Mediterranean within the …

[图书][B] Dipping into the soda lakes of East Africa

M Schagerl, RW Renaut - 2016 - Springer
Saline alkaline lakes are the focus of this book, but how do they form and how do they differ
from freshwater lakes? We provide a brief introduction to soda lakes, their origin and their …

Glacial changes in tropical climate amplified by the Indian Ocean

PN DiNezio, JE Tierney, BL Otto-Bliesner… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
The mechanisms driving glacial-interglacial changes in the climate of the Indo-Pacific warm
pool are poorly understood. Here, we address this question by combining paleoclimate …

Isotopic reconstruction of the African humid period and Congo air boundary migration at Lake Tana, Ethiopia

K Costa, J Russell, B Konecky, H Lamb - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The African Humid Period of the early to mid-Holocene (12,000–5000 years ago)
had dramatic ecological and societal consequences, including the expansion of vegetation …

Southeast African records reveal a coherent shift from high-to low-latitude forcing mechanisms along the east African margin across last glacial–interglacial transition

M Chevalier, BM Chase - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Late Quaternary climate variability in the southern African subtropics is still only poorly
resolved, with significant complexity and apparent contradictions in the regional dataset. To …

[HTML][HTML] Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal

F Schaebitz, A Asrat, HF Lamb, AS Cohen… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Reconstructions of climatic and environmental conditions can contribute to current debates
about the factors that influenced early human dispersal within and beyond Africa. Here we …