23. Reconstructing the Climatic History of the Western Coast of Africa over the Past 1.5 m.y.: A Comparison of Proxy Records from the Congo Basin and the Walvis Ridge and the Search for Evidence of the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

METHODOLOGY

Sample Preparation

Stable Isotope Analyses

Magnetic Susceptibility

Total Carbon and Total Organic Carbon

Organic Geochemistry

Fractionation and Mass Spectrometry

Pigment Analysis

CONSTRUCTION OF AGE-DEPTH MODELS

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

CONCLUSIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

REFERENCES

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