Late Quaternary southwestern African terrestrial-climate signals
in the marine record of Walvis Ridge, SE Atlantic Ocean

Ph.D.- thesis by Jan-Berend Stuut

Promotor:                Prof. Dr. Poppe L. de Boer
                               Faculty of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University
                               Utrecht, The Netherlands

Co-promotores:       Dr. J.H. Fred Jansen
                               Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
                               Den Burg, The Netherlands

                               Dr. George Postma
                               Faculty of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University
                               Utrecht, The Netherlands

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Index

Chapter 1. Introduction and summary. (PDF)

Chapter 2. Southeastern Atlantic deep-sea sediments characterised by CORTEX
(Core scanner Texel, XRF). (PDF)

Chapter 3. Precision, accuracy and resolution of the laser particle sizer Malvern Mastersizer S and unmixing of artificial sediment mixtures.  (PDF)

Chapter 4. Fast reconnaissance of carbonate dissolution based on the size distribution of calcareous ooze on Walvis Ridge, SE Atlantic Ocean. (PDF)

Chapter 5. A 300 kyr record of aridity and wind strength in Southwestern Africa: inferences from grain-size distributions of sediments on Walvis Ridge, SE Atlantic Ocean. (PDF)

Chapter 6. Palaeo- wind strength and continental aridity based on the terrigenous fraction of sediments from the continental slope offshore Walvis Bay, SE Atlantic Ocean. (PDF)

Chapter 7.Southern Hemisphere aridity signals in the grain-size distributions of terrigenous sediments. (PDF)

Chapter 8.Concluding remarks (PDF)

Appendix A:  Analytical methods (PDF)

References (PDF)

Samenvatting (summary in Dutch) (PDF)

Acknowledgements (PDF)

Stellingen [one liners / theses] (PDF)