Pollen analysis of sediment core GIK16415-2 in the eastern tropical Atlantic

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Palynological data of the marine core M 16415-2 show latitudinal shifts of the northern fringe of the tropical rain forest in north-west Africa during the last 700 ka. Savanna and dry open forest expanded southwards and tropical rain forest expanded northwards during dry and humid periods, respectively. Until 220 ka B.P., the tropical rain forest probably kept its zonal character in West Africa during glacials and interglacials. It is only during the last two glacial periods that the rain forest possibly fragmented into refugia. Throughout the Brunhes chron, pollen and spore transport was mainly by trade winds.

Supplement to: Dupont, Lydie M; Agwu, Chiori O C (1992): Latitudinal shifts of forest and savanna in N.W. Africa during the Brunhes chron: further marine palynological results from site M 16415 (9°N 19°W). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 1(3), 163-175

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.55102
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00191556
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.55102
Provenance
Creator Dupont, Lydie M ORCID logo; Agwu, Chiori O C
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 1992
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Representation
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 17952 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-19.095 LON, 9.567 LAT); Atlantic Ocean