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DOI | 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00106-5 |
Punctuated aridity in southern Africa during the last glacial cycle: The chronology of linear dune construction in the northeastern Kalahari | |
Stokes, S; Haynes, G; Thomas, DSG; Horrocks, JL; Higginson, M; Malifa, M | |
通讯作者 | Stokes, S |
来源期刊 | PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
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ISSN | 0031-0182 |
出版年 | 1998 |
卷号 | 137期号:3-4页码:305-322 |
英文摘要 | The Mega Kalahari of central southern Africa is one of the most extensive Quaternary desert basins. On a regional scale, present-day aeolian activity is restricted to episodic dune crest reactivation in the most arid southwestern desert core. There is, however, abundant evidence of former periods of both more arid and more humid conditions, many of which have little or no chronological control. We have employed optical dating of quartz sand grains to develop a chronology of arid intervals as recorded by phases of linear dune construction in the northeastern sector of the Mega Kalahari. We identify repeated phases of aeolian deposition during the last interglacial-glacial cycle, at ca. 95-115, 41-46, 20-26 and post-20 ka, which are separated by depositional hiatuses that we infer to correspond to more humid periods. These aeolian depositional events correlate with and are inferred to relate to millennial-scale cold sea surface temperature events in the southeast Atlantic which have been linked to sub-milankovitch climate changes recognised in northern hemisphere oceanic and cryospheric environmental archives covering the same time period. While the present landscape is the product of either post-20 ka (Hwange National Park dune field) or 20-30 ka (Victoria Falls dune held) aeolian activity and subsequent erosion and reworking, much of the vertical expression of the larger dune forms corresponds to the earlier periods of activity. The linear ridges of the area are rich archives of late Quaternary terrestrial climate change. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. |
英文关键词 | Kalahari Desert optical dating linear dunes Pleistocene geochronology palaeoenvironmental reconstruction |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | England ; USA ; Zimbabwe |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000072622200005 |
WOS关键词 | SOUTHWESTERN KALAHARI ; EASTERN SAHARA ; SEDIMENTS ; DESERT ; PALEOENVIRONMENTS ; PLEISTOCENE ; CLIMATE ; QUARTZ |
WOS类目 | Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary ; Paleontology |
WOS研究方向 | Physical Geography ; Geology ; Paleontology |
来源机构 | University of Oxford |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/136470 |
作者单位 | (1)Univ Oxford, Sch Geog, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England;(2)Univ Oxford, Res Lab Archaeol, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England;(3)Univ Nevada, Dept Anthropol, Reno, NV 89557 USA;(4)Univ Sheffield, Sheffield Ctr Int Dryland Res, Dept Geog, Sheffield, S Yorkshire, England;(5)Hwange Natl Pk, Res Branch, Sinamatella Camp, Zimbabwe |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Stokes, S,Haynes, G,Thomas, DSG,et al. Punctuated aridity in southern Africa during the last glacial cycle: The chronology of linear dune construction in the northeastern Kalahari[J]. University of Oxford,1998,137(3-4):305-322. |
APA | Stokes, S,Haynes, G,Thomas, DSG,Horrocks, JL,Higginson, M,&Malifa, M.(1998).Punctuated aridity in southern Africa during the last glacial cycle: The chronology of linear dune construction in the northeastern Kalahari.PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY,137(3-4),305-322. |
MLA | Stokes, S,et al."Punctuated aridity in southern Africa during the last glacial cycle: The chronology of linear dune construction in the northeastern Kalahari".PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 137.3-4(1998):305-322. |
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