Literature DB >> 16469920

The age of the Sahara desert.

Mathieu Schuster1, Philippe Duringer, Jean-François Ghienne, Patrick Vignaud, Hassan Taisso Mackaye, Andossa Likius, Michel Brunet.   

Abstract

In the Sahara region, the age of onset of the desert condition has been uncertain until now. Here we report on the discovery of 7,000,000-year-old eolian dune deposits from the northern Chad Basin. This geological archive is the oldest known evidence for desert occurrence in the Sahara.

Year:  2006        PMID： 16469920     DOI： 10.1126/science.1120161

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Science        ISSN： 0036-8075            Impact factor:   47.728


  23 in total

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