# Off Mauritania, dust fell to a low between about 14,800 and 5,500 years ago, when the Sahara was green with perennial…

> A dust record from ODP Site 658C off Cap Blanc, Mauritania, dated by 18 radiocarbon dates, shows low dust between 14.8 and 5.5 thousand calendar years…

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# Off Mauritania, dust fell to a low between about 14,800 and 5,500 years ago, when the Sahara was green with perennial…

A dust record from ODP Site 658C off Cap Blanc, Mauritania, dated by 18 radiocarbon dates, shows low dust between 14.8 and 5.5 thousand calendar years ago, when the Sahara was "nearly completely vegetated" with "numerous perennial lakes"; the humid period began and ended within decades to centuries.

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## What it bears on 1 answer

[Wet but not a ringed lake: streams and small lakes in the African Humid Period, about 14,800 to 5,500 years ago](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/answers/ANS0DCP9GQMCS19/wet-but-not-a-ringed-lake-streams-and-small-lakes-in-the)

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Off Mauritania, dust fell to a low between about 14,800 and 5,500 years ago, when the Sahara was green with perennial… [Evidence EVD0DCPAE99WFM7]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DCPAE99WFM7
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