Organic carbon burial in Mediterranean sapropels intensified during Green Sahara Periods since 3.2 Myr ago

Organic carbon burial in Mediterranean sapropels intensified during Green Sahara Periods since 3.2 Myr ago

Mediterranean sediment records spanning the last five million years suggest an abrupt increase in carbon burial and terrigenous accumulation coincided with enhanced fluvial sediment mobilisation in North Africa during orbitally-driven Green Sahara Periods.

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Main Authors: Katharine M. Grant, Udara Amarathunga, Jessica D. Amies, Pengxiang Hu, Yao Qian, Tiah Penny, Laura Rodriguez-Sanz, Xiang Zhao, David Heslop, Diederik Liebrand, Rick Hennekam, Thomas Westerhold, Stewart Gilmore, Lucas J. Lourens, Andrew P. Roberts, Eelco J. Rohling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-01-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00339-9

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00339-9

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