The late Miocene onset of high productiv
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Liselotte Diester-Haass; Philip A. Meyers; Laurence Vidal
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We have examined the history of the elevated primary productivity associated with the Benguela Current upwelling system off southwest Africa using sediments from 7.5 to 4.8 Ma at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1085 in the middle Cape Basin. Sedimentation rates are low until 6.9 Ma. Low accumulation rat