Holocene palaeoenvironmental history of the central Sahara

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Baumhauer, Roland, Runge, Jürgen, 1962-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2009.
SeriesPalaeoecology of Africa ; v. 29.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780203874899
9780415482561
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xxii, 252 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color).

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Table of Contents:
  • In memoriam / Johanna Alida Coetzee (1921-2007) / Klaus Heine
  • Geomorphological and palaeoenvironmental research in the south-central Sahara in review / Roland Baumhauer, Peter Felix-Henningsen & Brigitta Schütt
  • Comparison of proxy-based palaeoenvironmental reconstructions and hindcast modelled annual precipitation
  • a review of Holocene palaeoenvironmental research in the central Sahara / Brigitta Schütt & Ian Krause
  • Holocene palaeoenvironmental changes in central Sahara inferred from Seggedim scarp foot depression (NE-Niger) / Roland Baumhauer [and others]
  • The desert in the Sahara : transitions and boundaries / Erhard Schulz [and others]
  • Palaeo-climatic evidence of soil development on Sahelian ancient dunes of different age in Niger, Chad and Mauritania / Peter Felix-Henningsen, Peter Kornatz & Einar Eberhardt
  • Are there valuable pedological palaeoenvironmental indicators in northern Chad? / Ludger Herrmann, Mohamed Mounkaila & Frieder Graef
  • -New discovery of rock fulgurites in the central Sahara / Barbara Sponholz
  • Fluvial geomorphology and palaeohydrology of a small tributary of the Plateau de Mangueni, NE Niger / Jan Krause & Brigitta Schütt
  • Palaeoecology of the giant catfish (Arius gigas, Ariidae) in Holocene Saharan and tropical West African waters / Hélène Jousse & Wim Van Neer
  • Neolithic domestication and pastoralism in central Sahara : the cattle necropolis of Mankhor (Tadrart algérienne) / Michel Tauveron, Karl Heinz Striedter & Nadjib Ferhat
  • The microstratigraphy and micromorphology of a Holocene palaeolake in southern Tunisia / Abdelhakim Abichou
  • Different dimensions of recent vegetation dynamics of North and West Africa / Brian Beckers & Brigitta Schütt
  • Landmines, drugs and justice : the recent history of two Saharan mountains (Adrar des Iforas/Mali and Air Mts./Niger) / Issa Ousseïni, Aboubacar Adamou & Erhard Schulz
  • -The Sahelian and Saharan dune systems of Niger : a comparison of their granulometric characteristics / Ibrahim Mamane Sani & Issa Ousseïni.