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Nat Commun. 2019 Aug 23;10(1):3803. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11701-z.

A drop in Sahara dust fluxes records the northern limits of the African Humid Period.

Nature communications

Daniel Palchan, Adi Torfstein

Affiliations

  1. The Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel. [email protected].
  2. Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat, 88103, Israel. [email protected].
  3. The Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel.
  4. Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat, 88103, Israel.

PMID: 31444347 PMCID: PMC6707271 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11701-z

Abstract

Northern and eastern Africa were exposed to significantly wetter conditions relative to present during the early Holocene period known as the African Humid Period (AHP), although the latitudinal extent of the northward expansion of the tropical rain belt remains poorly constrained. New records of

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