03650oam 2200613I 450 991081493690332120230803220514.00-429-22769-81-315-81505-210.1201/b15982(CKB)2550000001161934(EBL)1378863(OCoLC)863821658(SSID)ssj0001039620(PQKBManifestationID)11554459(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001039620(PQKBWorkID)10985665(PQKB)10451776(MiAaPQ)EBC1378863(OCoLC)861983866(EXLCZ)99255000000116193420180420d20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNew studies on former and recent landscape changes in Africa /editor, Jurgen RungeBoca Raton :CRC Press,[2014].©20141 online resource (236 p.)Palaeoecology of Africa : international yearbook of landscape evolution and palaeoenvironments,0168-6208 ;volume 32Description based upon print version of record.1-138-00116-3 1-306-13684-9 Includes bibliographical references.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 AFRICACHAPTER 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 MEASURESCHAPTER 9: CLIMATE CHANGE ANALYSIS ACROSS RAINFALL-DISCHARGE VARIABILITY IN SELECTED RIVER CATCHMENTS OF KENYA AND CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICBOOK SERIES PAGEThis 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--Provided by publisher.Palaeoecology of Africa ;v. 32.PaleoecologyAfricaGeologyAfricaPaleoecologyGeology561/.1096NAT010000SCI031000bisacshRunge Jurgen1962-FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910814936903321New studies on former and recent landscape changes in Africa4082321UNINA