Aridification of the Sahara desert caused by Tethys Sea shrinkage during the Late Miocene

Zhongshi Zhang (1, 2, 3) , Gilles Ramstein (4, 5) , Mathieu Schuster (6) , Camille Li (7, 2) , Camille Contoux (2, 1) , Qing Yan (3)

1 Uni Research Climate
2 BCCR - Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
3 Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre
4 LSCE - Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette]
5 CLIM - Modélisation du climat
6 IPGS-Dylbas - Dynamique de la lithosphère et des bassins sédimentaires (IPGS)
7 GFI / BiU - Geophysical Institute [Bergen]

Domaines: Sciences de la Terre

Zhongshi Zhang, Gilles Ramstein, Mathieu Schuster, Camille Li, Camille Contoux, et al.. Aridification of the Sahara desert caused by Tethys Sea shrinkage during the Late Miocene. Nature, 2014, 513, pp.401-404. ⟨10.1038/nature13705⟩. ⟨hal-01070689⟩