Holocene palaeoenvironmental history of the central Sahara. (©2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Roland Baumhauer, Jürgen Runge.
• Other Names: Baumhauer, Roland; Runge, Jürgen, 1962-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Copyright Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 252 pages), illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
• Subjects: 560/.1793; 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; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780203874899; 0203874897
• Related ISBNs: 9780415482561; 0415482569
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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