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von Suchodoletz, Hans ; Oberhänsli, Hedi ; Faust, Dominik ; Fuchs, Markus ; Blanchet, Cécile ; Goldhammer, Tobias ; Zöller, Ludwig:
The evolution of Saharan dust input on Lanzarote (Canary Islands) – influenced by human activity in the Northwest Sahara during the early Holocene?
Bayreuth
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2009
DOI der Verlagsversion: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683609350385
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Abstract
An overall Holocene increase of Saharan dust input to the Canary Islands and to the North Canary Basin is accompanied by a strong coarsening of Saharan dust in loess-like sediments deposited on Lanzarote from ~7–8 ka. No similar coarsening events are indicated in investigations of the sedimentological record for the last 180 ka, a period showing several dramatic climate changes. Therefore a mobilisation of Holocene dust by anthropogenic activity in the northwest Sahara east of the Canary Islands is assumed. Although scarce archaeological data from the coastal area of that region does not point to strong anthropogenic activity during the early Holocene, a high density of unexplored archaeological remains is reported from the coastal hinterlands in the Western Sahara. Thus, the hypothesis of early anthropogenic activity cannot be excluded.
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Item Type: | Preprint, postprint |
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Additional notes (visible to public): | Source: The Holocene (2010) volume 20/2, 169-179.
doi: 10.1177/0959683609350385 |
Keywords: | Staub; Kanarische Inseln; Sahara <Nordwest>; Desertifikation; Holozän; Geoarchäologie; Saharan dust; Canary Islands; Western Sahara; desertification; Early Holocene |
DDC Subjects: | 500 Science > 550 Earth sciences, geology |
Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences |
Language: | English |
Originates at UBT: | Yes |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-opus-6469 |
Date Deposited: | 25 Apr 2014 10:06 |
Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2021 09:18 |
URI: | https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/480 |