A progressively wetter climate in southern East Africa over the past 1.3 million years

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2016-08-10

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature19065PMID 27509851
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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