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Project Acronym: LMDP | State: Post Moratorium | Expedition ID: 5020

2016
Johnson T , Werne J , Brown E , Abbott A , Berke M , Steinman B , Halbur J , Contreras S , Grosshuesch S , Deino A , Scholz C , Lyons R , Schouten S , Damsté J .
A progressively wetter climate in southern East Africa over the past 1.3 million years.
Nature. 2016 ; 537 (7619): 220-224. [doi][doi]
Mortimer E , Paton D , Scholz C , Strecker M .
Implications of structural inheritance in oblique rift zones for basin compartmentalization: Nkhata Basin, Malawi Rift (EARS).
Marine and Petroleum Geology. 2016 ; 72 110-121. [doi][doi]
Wilke T , Wagner B , Van Bocxlaer B , Albrecht C , Ariztegui D , Delicado D , Francke A , Harzhauser M , Hauffe T , Holtvoeth J , Just J , Leng M , Levkov Z , Penkman K , Sadori L , Skinner A , Stelbrink B , Vogel H , Wesselingh F , Wonik T .
Scientific drilling projects in ancient lakes: Integrating geological and biological histories.
Global and Planetary Change. 2016 ; 143 118-151. [doi][doi]
Mortimer E , Kirstein L , Stuart F , Strecker M .
Spatio-temporal trends in normal-fault segmentation recorded by low-temperature thermochronology: Livingstone fault scarp, Malawi Rift, East African Rift System.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 2016 ; 455 62-72. [doi][doi]
2015
Lyons R , Scholz C , Cohen A , King J , Brown E , Ivory S , Johnson T , Deino A , Reinthal P , McGlue M , Blome M .
Continuous 1.3-million-year record of East African hydroclimate, and implications for patterns of evolution and biodiversity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2015 ; 112 (51): 15568-15573. [doi][doi]
2012
Cohen A .
Scientific drilling and biological evolution in ancient lakes: Lessons learned and recommendations for the future.
Hydrobiologia. 2012 ; 682 (1): 3-25. [doi][doi]
2011
Burnett A , Soreghan M , Scholz C , Brown E .
Tropical East African climate change and its relation to global climate: A record from Lake Tanganyika, Tropical East Africa, over the past 90+kyr.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2011 ; 303 (1-4): 155-167. [doi][doi]
Scholz C , Cohen A , Johnson T .
Southern hemisphere tropical climate over the past 145ka: Results of the Lake Malawi Scientific Drilling Project, East Africa.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2011 ; 303 (1-4): 1-2. [doi][doi]
Scholz C , Cohen A , Johnson T , King J , Talbot M , Brown E .
Scientific drilling in the Great Rift Valley: The 2005 Lake Malawi Scientific Drilling Project - An overview of the past 145,000years of climate variability in Southern Hemisphere East Africa.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2011 ; 303 (1-4): 3-19. [doi][doi]
Powers L , Johnson T , Werne J , Castañeda I , Hopmans E , Sinninghe Damsté J , Schouten S .
Organic geochemical records of environmental variability in Lake Malawi during the last 700 years, Part I: The TEX86 temperature record.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2011 ; 303 (1-4): 133-139. [doi][doi]
Castañeda I , Werne J , Johnson T , Powers L .
Organic geochemical records from Lake Malawi (East Africa) of the last 700years, part II: Biomarker evidence for recent changes in primary productivity.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2011 ; 303 (1-4): 140-154. [doi][doi]
McHargue L , Jull A , Cohen A .
Measurement of 10Be from Lake Malawi (Africa) drill core sediments and implications for geochronology.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2011 ; 303 (1-4): 110-119. [doi][doi]
Scholz C , Talbot M , Brown E , Lyons R .
Lithostratigraphy, physical properties and organic matter variability in Lake Malawi Drillcore sediments over the past 145,000years.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2011 ; 303 (1-4): 38-50. [doi][doi]
Lyons R , Scholz C , Buoniconti M , Martin M .
Late Quaternary stratigraphic analysis of the Lake Malawi Rift, East Africa: An integration of drill-core and seismic-reflection data.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2011 ; 303 (1-4): 20-37. [doi][doi]
Woltering M , Johnson T , Werne J , Schouten S , Sinninghe Damsté J .
Late Pleistocene temperature history of Southeast Africa: A TEX86 temperature record from Lake Malawi.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2011 ; 303 (1-4): 93-102. [doi][doi]
Stone J , Westover K , Cohen A .
Late Pleistocene paleohydrography and diatom paleoecology of the central basin of Lake Malawi, Africa.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2011 ; 303 (1-4): 51-70. [doi][doi]
Brown E .
Lake Malawi's response to "megadrought" terminations: Sedimentary records of flooding, weathering and erosion.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2011 ; 303 (1-4): 120-125. [doi][doi]
Reinthal P , Cohen A , Dettman D .
Fish fossils as paleo-indicators of ichthyofauna composition and climatic change in Lake Malawi, Africa.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2011 ; 303 (1-4): 126-132. [doi][doi]
Johnson T , Brown E , Shi J .
Biogenic silica deposition in Lake Malawi, East Africa over the past 150,000years.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2011 ; 303 (1-4): 103-109. [doi][doi]
2007
Scholz C , Johnson T , Cohen A , King J , Peck J , Overpeck J , Talbot M , Brown E , Kalindekafe L , Amoako P , Lyons R , Shanahan T , Castañeda I , Heil C , Forman S , McHargue L , Beuning K , Gómez J , Pierson J .
East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2007 ; 104 (42): 16416-16421. [doi][doi]
Mortimer E , Paton D , Scholz C , Strecker M , Blisniuk P .
Orthogonal to oblique rifting: Effect of rift basin orientation in the evolution of the North basin, Malawi Rift, East Africa.
Basin Research. 2007 ; 19 (3): 393-407. [doi][doi]
2006
Moran K , Paulson M , Lengkeek M , Jeffery P , Frazer A .
Deep water scientific drilling in Lake Malawi, Africa.
Marine Technology Society Journal. 2006 ; 40 (1): 29-35. [doi][doi]
Scholz CA , Cohen AS , Johnson TC , King JW , Moran K .
The 2005 Lake Malawi Scientific Drilling Project.
Scientific Drilling. 2006 ; 2 17-19. [doi][doi]
1991
Finney B , Johnson T .
Sedimentation in Lake Malawi (East Africa) during the past 10,000 years: a continuous paleoclimatic record from the southern tropics.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 1991 ; 85 (3-4): 351-366. [doi][doi]

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