Mediterranean climate and oceanography, and the periodic development of anoxic events (sapropels)

EJ Rohling, G Marino, KM Grant - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Mediterranean sapropels are layers with elevated organic carbon concentrations that
contrast with surrounding sediments, which are organic poor. Sapropels occur (quasi-) …

Trends, rhythms and events in Plio-Pleistocene African climate

MH Trauth, JC Larrasoaña, M Mudelsee - Quaternary science reviews, 2009‏ - Elsevier
We analyzed published records of terrigenous dust flux from marine sediments off
subtropical West Africa, the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and the Arabian Sea, and lake …

Ancient watercourses and biogeography of the Sahara explain the peopling of the desert

NA Drake, RM Blench, SJ Armitage… - Proceedings of the …, 2011‏ - National Acad Sciences
Evidence increasingly suggests that sub-Saharan Africa is at the center of human evolution
and understanding routes of dispersal “out of Africa” is thus becoming increasingly …

Dynamics of green Sahara periods and their role in hominin evolution

JC Larrasoaña, AP Roberts, EJ Rohling - PloS one, 2013‏ - journals.plos.org
Astronomically forced insolation changes have driven monsoon dynamics and recurrent
humid episodes in North Africa, resulting in green Sahara Periods (GSPs) with savannah …

Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa

IS Castañeda, S Mulitza, E Schefuß… - Proceedings of the …, 2009‏ - National Acad Sciences
The carbon isotopic composition of individual plant leaf waxes (a proxy for C3 vs. C4
vegetation) in a marine sediment core collected from beneath the plume of Sahara-derived …

Luminescence dating: basics, methods and applications

F Preusser, D Degering, M Fuchs… - E&G Quaternary …, 2008‏ - egqsj.copernicus.org
Luminescence dating is a tool frequently used for age determination of Quaternary materials
such as archaeological artefacts, volcanic deposits and a variety of sediments from different …

A humid corridor across the Sahara for the migration of early modern humans out of Africa 120,000 years ago

AH Osborne, D Vance, EJ Rohling… - Proceedings of the …, 2008‏ - National Acad Sciences
It is widely accepted that modern humans originated in sub-Saharan Africa≈ 150–200
thousand years ago (ka), but their route of dispersal across the currently hyperarid Sahara …

A 3 million year index for North African humidity/aridity and the implication of potential pan-African Humid periods

KM Grant, EJ Rohling, T Westerhold, M Zabel… - Quaternary Science …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Mediterranean sediments are valuable archives of both African monsoon variability and
higher-latitude climate processes, and can also be used to provide an environmental context …

[كتاب][B] Arid and semi-arid geomorphology

AS Goudie - 2013‏ - books.google.com
Based on four decades of research by Professor Andrew Goudie, this volume provides a
state-of-the-art synthesis of our understanding of desert geomorphology. It presents a truly …

[HTML][HTML] The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya)

K Douka, Z Jacobs, C Lane, R Grün, L Farr… - Journal of Human …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The 1950s excavations by Charles McBurney in the Haua Fteah, a large karstic cave on the
coast of northeast Libya, revealed a deep sequence of human occupation. Most subsequent …