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. 2019 Jan 2;5(1):eaav1887. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aav1887

Fig. 4. African monsoon belt records and orbital forcing.

Fig. 4

(A) Northern Hemisphere summer insolation (65°N; dashed lines). (B) 230Th-normalized Saharan dust fluxes from core MD03-2705 (red; reversed scale). (C) Sapropel numbers from ODP967 in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, reflecting peaks in Nile River runoff (28). (D) δD values in leaf waxes from core RC09-166 in the Gulf of Aden (blue) (17). (E) Eccentricity-tilt-precession (ETP) parameter (gray) (29). Gray bars highlight maxima of 65°N summer insolation, demonstrating consistent monsoon responses to most insolation maxima and skipped beats during glacial maxima.