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Oral Programme CL1.10/SSP4.7

CL1.10/SSP4.7

Quaternary palaeoenvironments of Africa (co-organized)
Convener: Brian Chase  | Co-Convener: Stephanie Mills 
Oral Programme
 / Tue, 05 Apr, 10:30–12:00  / Room 25
Poster Programme
 / Attendance Tue, 05 Apr, 15:30–17:00  / Display Tue, 05 Apr, 08:00–19:30  / Halls X/Y

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Room 25
Chairperson: Brian Chase, Stephanie Mills
10:30–10:45
EGU2011-9063
Sedimentary evolution and climate history of SE Africa (Zambezi River region) since Marine Isotope Stage 3
Rik Tjallingii, Jeroen van der Lubbe, Isla S. Castañeda, Stefan Schouten, Yiming Wang, Ralph R. Schneider, and Geert-Jan Brummer
10:45–11:00
EGU2011-7253
Tracing African and South American terrigenous input from the modern distribution of major elements in Atlantic surface sediments (35°N-50°S)
Aline Govin, Ulrike Holzwarth, David Heslop, Lara Ford Keeling, Matthias Zabel, Stefan Mulitza, James A. Collins, and Cristiano M. Chiessi
11:00–11:15
EGU2011-8674
An astronomically-tuned climate framework for hominins in the Turkana Basin
Josephine Joordens, Hubert Vonhof, Craig Feibel, Lucas Lourens, Jeroen van der Lubbe, Guillaume Dupont-Nivet, Mark Sier, Gareth Davies, and Dick Kroon
11:15–11:30
EGU2011-188
Human evolution in a variable environment: the amplifier lakes of Eastern Africa
Martin Trauth, Mark Maslin, Alan Deino, Annett Junginger, Moses Lesoloyia, Eric Odada, Daniel Olago, Lydia Olaka, Manfred Strecker, and Ralph Tiedemann
11:30–11:45
EGU2011-9144
Western Sahel hydrology and land use over the last three millennia: natural versus anthropogenic influences
Ulrike Holzwarth, Lydie Dupont, Jürgen Möbius, Karin A. F. Zonneveld, and Michael Schulz
11:45–12:00
EGU2011-8080
Past changes in African climate and vegetation based on regional climate simulations
Kerstin Prömmel and Ulrich Cubasch