Articles | Volume 15, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1153-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1153-2019
Research article
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27 Jun 2019
Research article |  | 27 Jun 2019

Late Quaternary climate variability at Mfabeni peatland, eastern South Africa

Charlotte Miller, Jemma Finch, Trevor Hill, Francien Peterse, Marc Humphries, Matthias Zabel, and Enno Schefuß

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Here we reconstruct vegetation and precipitation, in eastern South Africa, over the last 32 000 years, by measuring the stable carbon and hydrogen isotope composition of plant waxes from Mfabeni peat bog (KwaZulu-Natal). Our results indicate that the late Quaternary climate in eastern South Africa did not respond directly to orbital forcing or to changes in sea-surface temperatures. Our findings stress the influence of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies in driving climate change in the region.