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The Age of the Sahara Desert

Published:2006-02-10 Issue:5762 Volume:311 Page:821-821
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Schuster Mathieu¹²³⁴,Duringer Philippe¹²³⁴,Ghienne Jean-François¹²³⁴,Vignaud Patrick¹²³⁴,Mackaye Hassan Taisso¹²³⁴,Likius Andossa¹²³⁴,Brunet Michel¹²³⁴

Affiliation:

1. Université Bretagne Occidentale, Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Domaines Océaniques, CNRS Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 6538, 1 place Nicolas Copernic, 29280 Plouzané, France.

2. Université Louis Pasteur, Ecole et Observatoire de Sciences de la Terre, Centre de Géochimie de la Surface, CNRS UMR 7517, 67084 Strasbourg, France.

3. Université de Poitiers, Laboratoire de Géobiologie, Biochronologie et Paléontologie Humaine, CNRS UMR 6046, 86022 Poitiers, France.

4. Département de Paléontologie, Université de N'Djaména, Boite Postale 1117, N'Djaména, Chad.

Abstract

In the Sahara region, the age of onset of the desert condition has been uncertain until now. Here we report on the discovery of 7,000,000-year-old eolian dune deposits from the northern Chad Basin. This geological archive is the oldest known evidence for desert occurrence in the Sahara.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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