Wet periods in northeastern Brazil over the past 210 kyr linked to distant climate anomalies
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The study presents a 210,000-year (210-kyr) record of wet periods that is obtained from speleothems and travertine deposits that are accurately dated using the U/Th method of the tropical northeastern Brazil. It concluded that the wet periods probably affected rainforest distribution, as plant fossils show that forest expansion occurred during these intermittent wet intervals, and opened a forest corridor between the Amazonian and Atlantic rainforests.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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Early human occupation of the Red Sea coast of Eritrea during the last interglacial
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Stone Age artefacts discovered on the Red Sea coast of modern-day Eritrea lend support to the 'out of Africa' hypothesis of human origins. The finds suggest human adaptation to a coastal marine environment and a widespread adaptive strategy underpinning expansion of human behaviour.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2000
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Melting of the Earth's Lithospheric mantle inferred from protactinium-thorium-uranium isotopic data
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A technique to place constraints on melting the lithospheric mantle is presented.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2000
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