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  1. The Age of the Sahara Desert (2006)
    Mathieu Schuster, Philippe Duringer et al. Science

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Works of Mathieu Schuster being referenced

Palladium exposure of barley: uptake and effects
2008
Aridification of the Sahara desert caused by Tethys Sea shrinkage during the Late Miocene
2014 Nature
Evolution of Lake Chad Basin hydrology during the mid-Holocene: A preliminary approach from lake to climate modelling
2007
Mapping of a major paleodrainage system in eastern Libya using orbital imaging radar: The Kufrah River
2008
Cosmogenic nuclide dating of Sahelanthropus tchadensis and Australopithecus bahrelghazali : Mio-Pliocene hominids from Chad
2008
First discovery of fossil dung beetle brood balls and nests in the Chadian Pliocene Australopithecine levels
2000
An Archaic Homo Molar from Northern Vietnam
2004
Holocene Lake Mega-Chad palaeoshorelines from space
2005
The Age of the Sahara Desert
2006 StandoutScience
Coastal conglomerates around the Hadjer el Khamis inselbergs (western Chad, central Africa): new evidence for Lake Mega‐Chad episodes
2003
Tectonic Uplift and Eastern Africa Aridification
2006 Science
New palaeontological assemblage, sedimentological and chronological data from the Pleistocene Ma U'Oi cave (northern Vietnam)
2005
Des boules de bousiers fossiles et leurs terriers dans les sites a Australopitheques du Pliocene tchadien
2000
Excitation of line and point defect modes in two-dimensional electromagnetic bandgap structures for microwave frequencies
2004
The Holocene giant Lake Chad revealed by digital elevation models
2002
The Pleistocene Ma U’Oi cave, northern Vietnam: palaeontology, sedimentology and palaeoenvironments
2004
Découverte de termitières fossiles dans les sites à Vertébrés du Pliocène tchadien : description, identification et implications paléoécologiques
2000
Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years
2008 Science
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