Chad Basin: Paleoenvironments of the Sahara since the Late Miocene

@article{Schuster2009ChadBP,
  title={Chad Basin: Paleoenvironments of the Sahara since the Late Miocene},
  author={Mathieu Schuster and Philippe Duringer and Jean‐François Ghienne and Claude Roquin and Pierre Sepulchre and Abderamane Moussa and Anne-Elisabeth Lebatard and Hassan Taisso Mackaye and Andossa Likius and Patrick Vignaud and Michel Brunet},
  journal={Comptes Rendus Geoscience},
  year={2009},
  volume={341},
  pages={603-611}
}
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