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Articles | Volume 12, issue 5
Articles | Volume 12, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1243-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1243-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 5
Research article
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27 May 2016
Research article |  | 27 May 2016

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, Dirk Verschuren, Johan W. H. Weijers, Christine Cocquyt, Maarten Blaauw, and Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

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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.
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