… Here we elucidate East African climate changes in the Late Cenozoic, using detailed
sedimentary records from 10 basins of the eastern branch of the EARS. The large geographic …

… pressure gradient increases during the July to September months, the Congo Air Boundary,
currently blocked by topography, crosses the East African plateaus, bringing extra moisture …

… to increased moisture availability. However, this is not the only mechanism that can be
associated with our scenarios regarding the Late Cenozoic moisture history of East Africa. Given …

… the uplift Indian Ocean moisture could penetrate much farther into the continent. The East
African and Ethiopian plateaus are inferred to deflect the shallow moisture-bearing trade winds…

… and feedbacks during the Late Cenozoic, using the high-… as moisture transport (eg, low-level
southwesterlies), Africa Easterly … only toward Central and East Africa. More specifically, the …

… Most of the other authors in this book deal with fossil faunas of the later Cenozoic, a time
when modern analogues are more relevant to the preserved communities. Thus, level at which …

… East Africa. The … moisture from the northern Africa monsoon, rather than local circulation
driven by direct equatorial insolation. This moisture event at 2.7–2.55 Ma, and later East African …

… In summer, the Indian Ocean anticyclone is generally far from the east coast, permitting moist
… similar to the contemporaneous fauna of east Africa. These elements formed part of a pan-…

… and it has a Neogene record heavily biased toward the depositional basins of the East African
Rift (… Moisture brought inland from the Atlantic or Indian Ocean is largely intercepted by the …

… key metric for eastern African climate; annual temperature variations are limited, while moisture
… Proxy records of northern and eastern African palaeoclimate reveal a trend towards drier …