NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Lake Malawi 1.2 Million Year Ostracod and Geochemical Lake Level Data

Description

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Lake. The data include parameters of paleolimnology with a geographic location of Malawi, Eastern Africa. The time period coverage is from 1219118 to 10475 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Study page with data access information. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/24631
0 General information for this data type. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/paleoclimatology/lake
47 Direct download links for dataset files. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/paleolimnology/africa/eastafrica/malawi2016ost.txt
0 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/paleoclimatology/paleoenvironmental-standard-terms-thesaurus
0 NCEI landing page with general information and links to access the data. https://doi.org/10.25921/x3b4-hz88
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
0 Sarah J. Ivory, Margaret W. Blome, John W. King, Michael M. McGlue, Julia E. Cole, and Andrew S. Cohen, 2016: Environmental change explains cichlid adaptive radiation at Lake Malawi over the past 1.2 million years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 11895-11900, 10.1073/pnas.1611028113 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1611028113

Tags

  • what: charcoal
  • lake malawi
  • longitude 34.43722
  • other hydroclimate reconstruction
  • latitude -11.29389
  • nesdis
  • eastern africa
  • what: depth
  • ocean/lake records
  • what: pyrite
  • continent
  • what: fish index
  • noaa
  • what: identified ostracod
  • population abundance
  • malawi
  • paleoclimate
  • material: null
  • what: siderite
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • core glad7-mal05-1
  • what: ostracod index
  • what: quartz
  • climate indicators
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei
  • paleolimnology
  • what: total ostracods
  • what: identified midge
  • paleoclimate indicators
  • africa
  • what: vivianite
  • what: age
  • mineralogy
  • what: identified chlorophyte
  • what: mica group
  • what: lake level
  • national centers for environmental information
  • material: sediment

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