声明
Acknowledgment
摘要
Abstract
Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 The eastern Equatorial Atlantic and West Africa’s climate-Modern Conditions
1.2 Africa climate and the monsoon
1.3 Objectives of this study
2 Study area and sampling sites
2.1.Study area
2.2 Sampling sites,materials and methods
3 Variations in terrigenous input into the eastern Equatorial Atlantic over 120 ka:Implications on Atlantic ITCZ migration
3.1 Geographical and Oceanographic Setting
3.2 Material and methods
3.3 Results
3.4 Discussion
3.5 Conclusion
4 Deep sea turbidites from the abyssal basin of Eastern Equatorial Atlantic
4.1 Material and methods
4.2.Results
4.3 DISCUSSION
4.4.Conclusion
5 Marine Sediment Records of eastern Equatorial Atlantic and South-East Atlantic
5.1 Materials
5.2 The variation of terrigenous input
5.3 Discussion
5.4 Conclusion
6 Conclusions and Future work
6.1 Conclusions
6.2 Future Research
References
APPENDIX
Biography