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Interannual and (multi-)decadal variability in the sedimentary BIT index of Lake Challa, East Africa, over the past 2200 years: assessment of the precipitation proxy
Laura K. Buckles
University of Utrecht, Faculty of Geosciences, P.O. Box 80.021, 3508
TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
Dirk Verschuren
Limnology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, K. L.
Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Johan W. H. Weijers
University of Utrecht, Faculty of Geosciences, P.O. Box 80.021, 3508
TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
present address: Shell Global Solutions International B.V., Kessler Park
1, 2288 GS Rijswijk, the Netherlands
Christine Cocquyt
Botanic Garden Meise, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860 Meise, Belgium
Maarten Blaauw
School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's
University Belfast, Elmwood Avenue, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
University of Utrecht, Faculty of Geosciences, P.O. Box 80.021, 3508
TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of
Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, and Utrecht University, P.O. Box
59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, the Netherlands
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This paper discusses the underlying mechanisms of a method that uses specific membrane lipids present in the sediments of an African tropical lake to determine past changes in rainfall. With this method, past dry periods in the last 25 000 years can be assessed.
This paper discusses the underlying mechanisms of a method that uses specific membrane lipids...