Abrupt shifts of the Sahara-Sahel boundary during Heinrich stadials demonstrated on a sediment core transect

• Main Authors: Collins, James A, Govin, Aline, Mulitza, Stefan, Heslop, David, Zabel, Matthias, Hartmann, Jens, Röhl, Ursula, Wefer, Gerold
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2013
• Subjects: Center for Marine Environmental Sciences; MARUM; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.820486; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.820486

Relict dune fields that are found as far south as 14° N in the modern-day African Sahel are testament to equatorward expansions of the Sahara desert during the Late Pleistocene. However, the discontinuous nature of dune records means that abrupt millennial-timescale climate events are not always res...