Christopher A. Scholz

TL;DR: Seismic reflection profiles and piston cores show that the lake not only was at a low stand but dried up completely during the Late Pleistocene, before 12,400 carbon-14 years before the present, implying that the rate of speciation of cichlid fish in this tropical lake has been extremely rapid.

TL;DR: Results from new scientific drill cores from Lake Malawi are presented, the first long and continuous, high-fidelity records of tropical climate change from the continent itself, providing evidence for dramatically wetter conditions after 70 kyr ago.

TL;DR: It is found that intervals of severe drought lasting for periods ranging from decades to centuries are characteristic of the monsoon and are linked to natural variations in Atlantic temperatures, indicating that themonsoon is capable of longer and more severe future droughts.

TL;DR: In this article, the termination of humidity was spatially variable, moving towards progressively lower latitudes in Africa during the early to mid-Holocene, during which Africa was more humid than today.

TL;DR: In the absence of dated core material from the lake`s sedimentary basement, several techniques have been used to generate such age estimates as mentioned in this paper, including the reflection seismic-radiocarbon method (RSRM), which combines estimates of short-term sediment accumulation rates derived from radiocarbon-dated cores and depth-to-basement estimates derived from reflection-seismic data at or near the same locality to estimate an age to basement.