THE WEST-AFRICAN MANGROVE - AN INDICATOR OF SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS AND REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES DURING THE LAST DEGLACIATION

Authors
LEZINE AM
Citation
Am. Lezine, THE WEST-AFRICAN MANGROVE - AN INDICATOR OF SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS AND REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES DURING THE LAST DEGLACIATION, Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France, 167(6), 1996, pp. 743-752
Citations number
86
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France → ACNP
ISSN journal
00379409
Volume
167
Issue
6
Year of publication
1996
Pages
743 - 752
Database
ISI
SICI code
0037-9409(1996)167:6<743:TWM-AI>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
The review of modern and late Quaternary pollen data recording the man grove evolution in West Africa shows that littoral and deep-sea sedime nts have registered different signals. The first one gives evidence fo r past sea-level variations from ca. 12,000 B.P. to ca 5,000 B.P. The second one records the first widespread response of tropical forest ec osystems to the last deglaciation step and enhanced monsoonal rains at ca. 9,500 B.P.