Sediment and pollen evidence for an early to mid-Holocene humid period in the eastern Sahara

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  1985

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1985-03-01

• Fields of study

  Geology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/314352A0
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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