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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790770503321

Titolo

New studies on former and recent landscape changes in Africa / / editor, Jurgen Runge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-429-22769-8

1-315-81505-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Palaeoecology of Africa : international yearbook of landscape evolution and palaeoenvironments, , 0168-6208 ; ; volume 32

Classificazione

NAT010000SCI031000

Disciplina

561/.1096

Soggetti

Paleoecology - Africa

Geology - Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; FOREWORD AND INTRODUCTION; CONTRIBUTORS; CHAPTER 1: PALAEOECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN THE SOKOTO BASIN AND THE DEEP OFFSHORE NIGER DELTA (NIGERIA) EVIDENCED BY BENTHONIC FORAMINIFERAL MICROFAUNA; CHAPTER 2: A HAZY SHADE OF WINTER: LATE PLEISTOCENE ENVIRONMENTS AND BEHAVIOURAL ADAPTATIONS AT BLOMBOS CAVE, SOUTH AFRICA; CHAPTER 3: LATE QUATERNARY VALLEY AND SLOPE DEPOSITS AND THEIR PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE IN THE UPPER CONGO BASIN, CENTRAL AFRICA

CHAPTER 4: LAKE LEVEL CHANGES OF BAROMBI MBO (CAMEROON) DURING THE LATE QUATERNARY: COMPARED CATCHMENT AND CRATER LAKE RECORDSCHAPTER 5: PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE HOLOCENE DEBRIS-FLOW PROCESS IN LAKE ASSOM (ADAMAWA, CAMEROON); CHAPTER 6: PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PLIO-PLEISTOCENE CHIWONDO AND CHITIMWE BEDS (N-MALAWI); CHAPTER 7: WHY 'YOUNGER DRYAS'? WHY NOT 'ANTARCTIC COLD REVERSAL'? EKSTEENFONTEIN REVISITED; CHAPTER 8: HISTORICAL AND PRESENT-DAY LANDSCAPE DEGRADATION IN ANAMBRA STATE (NIGERIA): IMPACTS AND REMEDIAL MEASURES



CHAPTER 9: CLIMATE CHANGE ANALYSIS ACROSS RAINFALL-DISCHARGE VARIABILITY IN SELECTED RIVER CATCHMENTS OF KENYA AND CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICBOOK SERIES PAGE

Sommario/riassunto

This book treats former and recent landscape evolution and past environments of the African continent (e.g. climate change, vegetation dynamics and growing impact of humans on ecosystems) and will be of interest to all concerned with low latitudes ecosystem changes and their respective interpretation in the framework of natural climate and vegetation change evidenced by a variety of methods that allow us to read and learn from 'proxy data' archives. Archaeologists, Palynologists, Palaeobotanists, Geographers, Geologists and Geomorphologists will find this edition equally useful for their work--