Upwelling History of the Benguela-Namibia System: A Synthesis of Leg 175 Results

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

Leg 175

OCEANOGRAPHY, NOMENCLATURE, PROXIES, AND SEDIMENT PATTERNS

AGE ASSIGNMENTS AND SEDIMENTATION RATES

QUATERNARY RECORD OF THE CONGO AND ANGOLA SITES

  WALVIS GROUP (SITES 1081, 1082, AND 1083)

General Aspects

Quaternary Glacial-Interglacial Productivity Cycles: The Walvis Paradox

Pre-Quaternary Glacial-Interglacial Productivity Cycles and the Post-Gauss Cooling Step

Pliocene-Pleistocene Diatom Deposition: The Namibia Opal Paradox

Pliocene-Pleistocene Productivity Record of the Namibia Upwelling System

LÜDERITZ SITE (SITE 1084)

CAPE BASIN GROUP (SITES 1085, 1086, AND 1087)

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

REFERENCES

APPENDIX

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