Dupont, Lydie M. and Leroy, Suzanne (1994): Steps toward drier climate conditions in north-western Africa during the upper Pliocene

Leg/Site/Hole: Related Expeditions:

ODP 108
ODP 108 658

Identifier: ID:

1994-041235

Type:

georefid

Creator: Name:

Dupont, Lydie M.

Affiliation:

Universitaet Goettingen, Institut fuer Palynologie, Gottingen, Federal Republic of Germany

Role:

author

Name:

Leroy, Suzanne

Affiliation:

IGBP PAGES, Bern, Switzerland

Role:

author

Identification: Title:

Steps toward drier climate conditions in north-western Africa during the upper Pliocene

Year:

1994

Source:

In: Thompson, Robert S. (editor), Pliocene terrestrial environments and data/model comparisons

Publisher:

U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States

Volume:

OF 94-0023

Issue:

Pages:

44-51

Abstract:

Language:

English

Genre:

Rights:

URL:

Coverage:Geographic coordinates:

	North:20.4457
West:-18.3451		East: -18.3451
	South:20.4457

Keywords:

Stratigraphy; Africa; arid environment; Atlantic Ocean; Cape Verde Atlantic; Cenozoic; clastic sediments; dust; humid environment; Leg 108; marine sediments; microfossils; miospores; Neogene; North Africa; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic; northwestern Africa; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP Site 658; paleoclimatology; paleoecology; palynomorphs; Pliocene; pollen; sedimentation; sediments; terrestrial environment; Tertiary; upper Pliocene; USGS; West Africa; wind transport;

SEDIS - Publications

Dupont, Lydie M. and Leroy, Suzanne (1994): Steps toward drier climate conditions in north-western Africa during the upper Pliocene