Paleoclimate reconstruction using Pleistocene paleosols along the middle Atbara River in Eastern Sudan

M. Mohammednoor, Robert Bussert , S. Tsukamoto , M. Richter , O. El Bedri , B. Kraatz , K. Salih , J. Müller , A. Eisawi & F. Bibi
Along the middle Atbara River, Pleistocene alluvial sediments dated to ~200 to 20 ka are exposed in eastern Sudan over a length of about 200 km with a maximum thickness of 50 m. The Atbara River today has its headwaters in the northern Ethiopian Plateau and is the last major tributary of the Nile before it flows through the Sahara. Previous studies and our fieldwork since 2018 have resulted in extensive finds of fossil terrestrial...

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  • //ror.org/02jbayz55:Faculty of Minerals and Oil, International University of Africa, Madani St, Khartoum 12223, Sudan
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  • //ror.org/05167c961:Department of Anatomy, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA 91711, USA
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  • Department of Geology, University of Khartoum, Al-Gama'a Avenue, 11111 Khartoum, Sudan
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  • Institute of Applied Geosciences, Technische Universität Berlin, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1, 10587 Berlin, Germany
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  • Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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  • Faculty of Petroleum and Minerals, Al Neelain University, El Gamhuriya Avenue, 11121 Khartoum, Sudan
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  • Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Stilleweg 2, 30655 Hannover, Germany
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