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Tectonically driven upwelling

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Upwelling within the highly productive Benguela current off the Namibian coast began in, and intensified throughout, the Neogene epoch. Model simulations indicate its development was intimately connected to evolving topography and mountain uplift in Africa.

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Figure 1: Uplift and upwelling.

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  1. Johan Etourneau is at the Ecole pratique des hautes études (EPHE), UMR CNRS 5805 EPOC, University of Bordeaux, 33405 Talence, France,

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Etourneau, J. Tectonically driven upwelling. Nature Geosci 7, 698–699 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2258

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