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Humboldt Programme Detail V7‐1.doc
Thursday 15 th January 2009
Session D. Palaeoclimates of Africa: Terrestrial records
Chair: Mike Meadows (University of Cape Town)
08h30
Strontium isotope ratios of aquatic fossils from the Plio‐Pleistocene Turkana Basin
(Kenya, Ethiopia) provide a new proxy for climate change in NE Africa.
JC. Joordens, HB. Vonhof, CS. Feibel, & D. Kroon
08h50
09h30
09h50
10h10
10h30‐11h00
The rain on the Serengeti plain: climatic change in Tanzania during the past 1.5 million
years.
NJ. van der Merwe
Stable oxygen and carbon isotope characteristics in speleothems from southern Africa
– how good are they?
K. Holmgren
Speleotherm records from the Cango Caves spanning 50‐100 kyr.
MJ, de Wit, C.Harris & J.Kramers
High‐resolution records of rapid climate change preserved in fossilised Hyrax middens
from south‐western African.
BM. Chase, ME. Meadows, L. Scott, DS. Thomas, L, Quick,
E, Marais, M, Sealy, N, Ogle, & PJ, Reimer
TEA
Session D. Palaeoclimates of Africa: Marine records
Chair: John Compton (University of Cape Town)
11h00
11h20
Sediment erosion on the southern South African continental margin: indications for
the paths of oceanic currents?
G. Uenzelmann‐Neben & K. Huhn
Changes in SE Atlantic watermass distribution and upwelling intensity during the last
1.1 million years.
E. Ufkes, RR. Schneider, JH. Jansen & D Kroon.
11h40 Terrigenous sediment export from the western margin of South Africa over glacial ‐
interglacial cycles.
J. Compton & J. Wiltshire
12h00
12h20
Holocene clay mineral provenance and climate change recorded in the western
margin mudbelt, South Africa.
CT. Herbert & JS. Compton
Mid‐Holocene climate on both sides of tropical Atlantic Ocean: data‐model
comparison.
B. Turcq, A. Sifeddine, P. Braconnot, D .Williamson,
AL. Albuquerque, & RC. Cordeiro
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