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PT J
TI Intensifying Weathering and Land Use in Iron Age Central Africa
BT 
AF BAYON, Germain
   DENNIELOU, Bernard
   ETOUBLEAU, Joel
   PONZEVERA, Emmanuel
   TOUCANNE, Samuel
   BERMELL, Sylvain
AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:1;5:1;6:1;
FF 1:PDG-REM-GM-LGM;2:PDG-REM-GM-LES;3:PDG-REM-GM-LGM;4:PDG-REM-GM-LGM;5:PDG-REM-GM-LES;6:PDG-REM-GM-CTD;
C1 IFREMER, Unite Rech Geosci Marines, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-REM-GM-LGM
   PDG-REM-GM-LES
   PDG-REM-GM-CTD
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
IF 31.03
TC 131
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00069/18031/15574.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB About 3000 years ago, a major vegetation change occurred in Central Africa, when rainforest trees were abruptly replaced by savannas. The consensus is that the forest disturbance was caused by climate change. We show here that chemical weathering in Central Africa, reconstructed from geochemical analyses of a marine sediment core, intensified abruptly at the same period, departing significantly from the long-term weathering fluctuations related to the Late Quaternary climate. Evidence that this weathering event was also contemporaneous with the migration of Bantu-speaking farmers across Central Africa suggests that human land-use intensification at that time already had a significant impact on the rainforest.
PY 2012
PD MAR
SO Science
SN 0036-8075
PU Amer Assoc Advancement Science
VL 335
IS 6073
UT 000301225100043
BP 1219
EP 1222
DI 10.1126/science.1215400
ID 18031
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