Investigations on rainfall variability during the late Quaternary based on 
geochemical analyses of lake sediments from tropical and subtropical southern 
Africa

Kristen, Iris

doi:10.2312/GFZ.b103-10018

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Investigations on rainfall variability during the late Quaternary based on geochemical analyses of lake sediments from tropical and subtropical southern Africa

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Kristen, Iris
Scientific Technical Report STR, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;
5.2 Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, 5.0 Earth Surface Processes, Departments, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

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Kristen, I. (2009): Investigations on rainfall variability during the late Quaternary based on geochemical analyses of lake sediments from tropical and subtropical southern Africa, PhD Thesis, (Scientific Technical Report STR ; 10/01), Potsdam : Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, viii, 124, XXII S. p.
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This thesis presents investigations on sediments from two African lakes which have been recording changes in their surrounding environmental and climate conditions since more than 200,000 years. Focus of this work is the time of the last Glacial and the Holocene (the last ~100,000 years before present [in the following 100 kyr BP]). One important precondition for this kind of research is a good understanding of the present ecosystems in and around the lakes and of the sediment formation under modern climate conditions. Both studies therefore include investigations on the modern environment (including organisms, soils, rocks, lake water and sediments).