Holocene palaeoenvironmental history of the central Sahara
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Holocene palaeoenvironmental history of the central Sahara
（Palaeoecology of Africa : international yearbook of landscape evolution and palaeoenvironments, v. 29）
CRC Press, c2009
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Description
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 results obtained from the Afro-Asian dry land belt and adjacent areas. The joint analysis of Late Quaternary landscape development and present environmental conditions in the Central Sahara will result in the modelling of Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoenvironments, emphasising various aspects.
This book will be of interest to all concerned with environmental changes in desert ecosystems in the past and at present and related development problems of Saharan countries, especially Ecologists, Botanists, Earth scientists and Climatologists. It will be valuable for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates as a reference for review and overview articles as well as a source of information for new original manuscripts on the topic of Late Pleistocene and Holocene landscape evolution in the lower latitudes of Africa. Palaeobotanists, Palynologists, Geomorphologists and Quaternarists will equally find this edition useful for their work.
Table of Contents
Geomorphological and Palaeoenvironmental Research in the South-Central Sahara in Review. Comparison of Proxy-Based Palaeoenvironmental Reconstructions and Hindcastmodelled Annual Precipitation-A Review Of Holocene Palaeoenvironmental Research in the Central Sahara. Holocene Palaeoenvironmental Changes in Central Sahara Inferred from Seggedim Scarp Foot Depression (Ne-Niger). The Desert in the Sahara. Transitions and Boundaries. Palaeo-Climatic Evidence of Soil Development on Sahelian Ancient Dunes of Different Age in Niger, Chad and Mauritania. Are There Valuable Pedological Palaeoenvironmental Indicators in Northern Chad? New Discovery of Rock Fulgurites in the Central Sahara. .Fluvial Geomorphology and Palaeohydrology of a Small Tributary of the Plateau De Mangueni, Ne Niger. Palaeoecology of the Giant Catfish (Arius Gigas, Ariidae) In Holocene Saharan and Tropical West African Waters. Neolithic Domestication and Pastoralism in Central Sahara: The Cattle Necropolis of Mankhor (Tadrart Algerienne). The Microstratigraphy and Micromorphology of a Holocene Palaeolake in Southern Tunisia. Different Dimensions of Recent Vegetation Dynamics of North And West Africa. Landmines, Drugs and Justice. The Recent History of Two Saharan Mountains (Adrar Des Iforas/Mali And Air Mts./Niger). The Sahelian and Saharan Dune Systems of Niger. A Comparison of Their Granulometric Characteristics.
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