Late Holocene plant and climate evolution at Lake Yoa, northern Chad: pollen data and climate simulations

The discovery of groundwater-fed Lake Yoa (19.03° N, 20.31° E) in the hyperarid desert of northern Chad by the German research team ACACIA headed by S. Kröpelin provides a unique, continuous sedimentary sequence of late Holocene age available in the entire Saharan desert. Here we present pollen data...

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Main Authors: A.-M. Lézine, W. Zheng, P. Braconnot, G. Krinner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2011-12-01
Series:Climate of the Past
Online Access:http://www.clim-past.net/7/1351/2011/cp-7-1351-2011.pdf