Sahara pump theory (English, name)
expansion: the Sahara pump theory
Senses:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A hypothesis that explains the manner in which flora and fauna migrated between Eurasia and Africa using a land bridge in the Levant region, based on the idea that there were periods of abundant rainfall lasting thousands of years in Africa and associated with a "wet-green Sahara" phase, during which larger lakes and more rivers existed.
Forms:
form: the Sahara pump theory
tags: canonical