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15 Jan 2016
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| 15 Jan 2016
Evidence of a prolonged drought ca. 4200 yr BP correlated with prehistoric settlement abandonment from the Gueldaman GLD1 Cave, Northern Algeria
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement,
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Laboratoire Géosciences Paris Sud, UMR 8148, Université
Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
F. Kherbouche
Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiqes et
Historiques, Algiers, Algeria
D. Genty
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement,
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
D. Blamart
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement,
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
H. Cheng
Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University,
Xi'an, China
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minnesota,
USA
F. Dewilde
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement,
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
S. Hachi
Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiqes et
Historiques, Algiers, Algeria
R. L. Edwards
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minnesota,
USA
E. Régnier
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement,
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
J.-L. Michelot
Laboratoire Géosciences Paris Sud, UMR 8148, Université
Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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