Long-term African dust delivery to the eastern Atlantic Ocean from the Sahara and Sahel regions: Evidence from Quaternary paleosols on the Canary Islands, Spain

Africa is the most important source of dust in the world today and dust storms from that continent frequently deposit sediment on the nearby Canary Islands. Many investigators have inferred African dust inputs to Canary Islands paleosols based only on the presence of quartz. However, some local rock...

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Main Authors: Daniel R Muhs, Joaquín Meco, James R Budahn, Gary L Skipp, Kathleen R Simmons, Matthew Baddock, Juan F Betancort, Alejandro Lomoschitz
Format: Default Article
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Pleistocene
Holocene
paleoclimatology
Africa
coastal geomorphology
sediment mineralogy
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/14748219.v1
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