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Aridity in equatorial Africa during the last 225,000 years; a record of opal phytoliths/ freshwater diatoms from the Zaire (Congo) deep-sea fan (Northeast Angola Basin).

J F Jansen, C Alderliesten, C M Houston, A M d, Klaas va, Iperen M van

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Angola Basin;phytoliths;Southeast Atlantic;Zaire Fan;arid environment;South Atlantic;opal;thallophytes;Atlantic Ocean;microfossils;Plantae;stratigraphy;algae;diatoms;framework silicates;silica minerals;silicates;Cenozoic;Quaternary;methods;C 14;carbon;isotopes;radioactive isotopes

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