Chad Sands again
An update on my story of the African dust which feeds the Amazonian Forests - guess who got there first...
Charles Darwin encountered African dust off the Cape Verde Islands early in the Beagle Voyage. He collected samples and later had them and similar samples obtained from another ship analysed. He wrote about the dust in his account of the Beagle voyage and, in 1846, he produced a short paper for the Journal of the Geological Society of London entitled An account of the Fine Dust which often falls on Vessels in the Atlantic Ocean,