Fig. 1: Central Congo Basin peatlands region, peat core locations and radiocarbon chronologies.
From: Hydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin
a, Map of the Cuvette Centrale showing the spatial distribution of palm-dominated peat swamp forest (light green) and hardwood-dominated peat swamp forest (dark green) derived from ref. 2. Red dots show the location of cores CEN-17.4, LOK5-5 and BDM1-7, blue dots show the location of cores EKGKM7-2019 (left) and EKG03 (right). Inset map shows the location of the central Congo peatlands, in green, the perimeter of the Congo Basin (black line) and the location of marine core GeoB6518-119,38 (white star). b–d, Age–depth models of cores CEN-17.4 (b), LOK5-5 (c) and BDM1-7 (d). Median age for each depth (line), 95% confidence intervals (filled envelopes) and calibrated 14C dates (black markers). A break in the modelled age–depth profiles highlighted by a horizontal brown band indicates the Ghost Interval. Dashed lines show stratigraphic correlations.
