Late Pleistocene and Holocene drought events at Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile

Magnetic and geochemical core data spanning the last 17,000 years are correlated with new seismic stratigraphy from Lake Tana, Ethiopia. to infer past lake-level change and hence effective precipitation. The data confirm that low lake-level coincides with Heinrich Event 1 (H1) in the North Atlantic,...

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Published in:Global and Planetary Change
Main Authors: Marshall, Michael H., Lamb, Henry F., Huws, Dei, Davies, Sarah J., Bates, C. Richard, Bloemendal, Jan, Boyle, John, Leng, Melanie J., Umer, Mohammed, Bryant, Charlotte
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Nile
mineral magnetics
XRF
seismics
Ethiopian highlands
Holocene
INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE
LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM
RESOLUTION SEISMIC-REFLECTION
SEDIMENTARY ORGANIC-MATTER
ABRUPT CLIMATE-CHANGE
TROPICAL WEST-AFRICA
M-RS/M-S
ATLANTIC-OCEAN
EAST-AFRICA
THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION
Low Lake
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/late-pleistocene-and-holocene-drought-events-at-lake-tana-the-source-of-the-blue-nile(ab002814-853e-476f-a926-2234381ee1c7).html
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.06.004

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