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Increased aridity in southwestern Africa during the warmest periods of the last interglacial
D. H. Urrego
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Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes EPHE, Université de Bordeaux, Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC), Unité Mixte de Recherche 5805, 33615 Pessac, France
Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
M. F. Sánchez Goñi
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes EPHE, Université de Bordeaux, Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC), Unité Mixte de Recherche 5805, 33615 Pessac, France
A.-L. Daniau
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC), Unité Mixte de Recherche 5805, 33615 Pessac, France
S. Lechevrel
Université de Bordeaux, Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC), Unité Mixte de Recherche 5805, 33615 Pessac, France
V. Hanquiez
Université de Bordeaux, Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC), Unité Mixte de Recherche 5805, 33615 Pessac, France
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Short summary
We present a new pollen-based palaeoclimatic reconstruction covering the period between 190,000 and 24,000 years ago from a marine sediment core located off the Namibian coast. Our work identifies increased dryness during the three warmest periods of the last interglacial involving atmospheric and oceanic reorganisations in southern Africa that are linked to precession minima.
We present a new pollen-based palaeoclimatic reconstruction covering the period between 190,000...
