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Megalake Chad impact on climate and vegetation during the late Pliocene and the mid-Holocene
C. Contoux
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement/IPSL, UMR8212, CEA/CNRS/UVSQ – Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Sisyphe, UPMC Paris 6/CNRS, Paris, France
Sisyphe, UPMC Paris 6/CNRS, Paris, France
G. Ramstein
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement/IPSL, UMR8212, CEA/CNRS/UVSQ – Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
P. Sepulchre
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement/IPSL, UMR8212, CEA/CNRS/UVSQ – Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
G. Krinner
Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Géophysique de l'Environnement, UJF-Grenoble1/CNRS, Grenoble, France
M. Schuster
Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, UMR7516, CNRS – Université de Strasbourg/EOST, 1 rue Blessig, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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