African Palaeoenvironments and Geomorphic Landscape Evolution
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African Palaeoenvironments and Geomorphic Landscape Evolution

Palaeoecology of Africa Vol. 30, An International Yearbook of Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironments

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African Palaeoenvironments and Geomorphic Landscape Evolution

Palaeoecology of Africa Vol. 30, An International Yearbook of Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironments

About this book

This 30st jubilee volume (2010) of "Palaeoecology of Africa" looks back and reflects the "state of the art" of what is actually known on former African climates and ecosystems in the format of review articles authored by specialists in the field. New research articles on climate and ecosystem dynamics as well as applied topics on geomorphic ha

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9780415587891
eBook ISBN
9781136926020
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Evolution
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Palaeoecology of Africa
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Obituary
  9. Preface and Introduction
  10. Contributors
  11. Chapter 1 How it all began—Eduard van Zinderen Bakker and Palaeoecology of Africa
  12. Chapter 2 Reconstructing environmental changes since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in the Geba Basin, Northern Ethiopia, by geomorphic process interpretation and land management evaluation
  13. Chapter 3 Climate reconstructions based on fluvial deposits in hyper-arid desert environments: The Namib case
  14. Chapter 4 A sedimentary record of environmental change at Tsodilo Hills White Paintings Rock Shelter, Northwest Kalahari Desert, Botswana
  15. Chapter 5 Ecosystem change during MIS 4 and early MIS 3: Evidence from Middle Stone Age sites in South Africa
  16. Chapter 6 The potential of Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Restionaceae phytoliths to reflect past environmental conditions in South Africa
  17. Chapter 7 Topographic and hydrologic control of gully erosion phenomena in palaeolandscapes of Swaziland, Southern Africa
  18. Chapter 8 Gypsum in desert soils, subsurface crusts and host sediments (Western Desert of Egypt)
  19. Chapter 9 New findings from geological, geomorphological and sedimentological studies on the palaeoenvironmental conditions in Southern Cameroon
  20. Chapter 10 Palaeoclimate of Ondiri Swamp, Kikuyu, Kenya, from 1.350 to 1.810 AD
  21. Chapter 11 A cluster-analysis-based climate classification for NE Africa
  22. Chapter 12 Climate and palaeoenvironment evolution in north tropical Africa from the end of the Tertiary to the Upper Quaternary
  23. Chapter 13 An assessment of the spatial and temporal distribution of natural hazards in Central Africa