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Freshwater diatoms from a core off Cape Blanc have been used to reconstruct atmospheric circulation and climate on the African continent. Maxima in freshwater diatoms occurred mainly in the late phase of interglacial stages. From the freshwater diatom record it can be inferred that intertropical aridity and increased wind strength was initiated just prior to global icegrowth.
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Stabell, B. (1989). Deflation and Humidity During the Last 700 Ka in NW Africa from the Marine Record. In: Leinen, M., Sarnthein, M. (eds) Paleoclimatology and Paleometeorology: Modern and Past Patterns of Global Atmospheric Transport. NATO ASI Series, vol 282. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0995-3_31
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