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Title Holocene palaeoenvironmental history of the central Sahara / editors, Roland Baumhauer, Jürgen Runge
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 252 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Series Palaeoecology of Africa ; v. 29
Palaeoecology of Africa ; v. 29.
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
Summary The environmental setting within the Central Sahara was subject to considerable changes during Late Quaternary, mainly driven by major global climate variations, although human impact increased constantly since Early Holocene. Such global events can be reconstructed with the help of reliefs, sediments and palaeosoils and their specific morphological, chemical and mineralogical properties. The project's focus is to ascertain new and established data on climate variations and associated palaeoenvironmental changes within the Central Sahara and to systematically collate and correlate them to resul
Notes "A Balkema book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Paleoecology -- Sahara
Paleoecology -- Holocene.
Paleoecology -- Pleistocene.
Desert ecology -- Sahara -- History
NATURE -- Fossils.
NATURE -- Animals -- Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures.
SCIENCE -- Paleontology.
Desert ecology
Holocene Geologic Period
Paleoecology
Pleistocene Geologic Epoch
Holozän
Palökologie
Sahara
Sahara
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Baumhauer, Roland
Runge, Jürgen, 1962-
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