How dramatic climate change in Southern Sahara reduced largest freshwater lake on Earth to desert dunes we see today in just a few hundred years
Monday, June 29, 2015 - 19:30
in Earth & Climate
Researchers used satellite images to map abandoned shore lines around Palaeolake Mega-Chad, and analyzed sediments to calculate the age of these shore lines, producing a lake level history spanning the last 15,000 years.