Mid-Holocene expansion of the Indian Ocean warm pool documented in coral Sr/Ca records from Kenya

Maike Leupold1, Miriam Pfeiffer2, Takaaki K Watanabe3,4

  • 1Geological Institute, RWTH Aachen University, 52062, Aachen, Germany.

Scientific Reports
|January 14, 2023
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