Palaeoecology of Africa and the Surrounding Islands, Volume 27

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-90-5809-350-9
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 378 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 657 g

Reihe: Palaeoecology of Africa

These papers derive from a workshop on "Quaternary Sedimentary Records in Central Africa and their Palaeoenvironmental Interpretation", held at the 15th INQUA Congress. They mainly cover the Late Quaternary to Holocene climate and environmental history of today's rainforest regions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heine, K.

Runge, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläoökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläobotanik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläozoologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Historische Geologie, Geochronologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Tektonik, Strukturgeologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Preface Central African palaeoclimates and palaeoenvironments since 40 ka –an overview (with two maps); Palaeo-lake Congo: Implications for Africa’s Late Cenozoic climate – some unanswered questions; On the age of stone-lines and hillwash sediments in the eastern Congo basin – palaeoenvironmental implications; The palaeoenvironmental significance of Late Pleistocene and Holocene creep and other geomorphic processes, Butare, Rwanda; The Pleistocene fossil site of Masangano in northern Rwanda; Sedimentary sequences in western Uganda as records of human environmental impacts; Evolution of the carbon cycle in Lake Kimilili, Mt Elgon, Kenya, since 14 000 cal. yr BP: a multiproxy study; Stratigraphy and formation of a Late Pleistocene colluvial apron in Morogoro district, Central Tanzania; On the age and significance of Quaternary colluvium in eastern Zambia; Stable carbon isotope (?13C) analysis of alluvial sediments and Holocene environmental changes in the Mbari valley in the Southeast of the Central African Republic (CAR); Bioturbation by termites and Late Quaternary landscape evolution on the Mbomou plateau of the Central African Republic (CAR); Opal phytoliths as evidence for the formation of savanna islands in the rain forest of Southeast Cameroon; A study of Niger Delta environment through air-borne palynomorphs, Port Harcourt, Nigeria; The origin of dust on the West Coast of Southern Africa; Fossil landslides in the Schwarzrand, Huib and Huns escarpment areas – a contribution to the Quaternary morphostratigraphy of southern Namibia; Distribution and morphologies of palaeo-channels in southeastern Egypt and northwestern Sudan; The position of the Murzuq Sand Sea in the palaeodrainage system of the Eastern Sahara; Understanding of coastal fluctuation at the Arabian Gulf leading to the ‘lost city of Gerrha’?

Über Autor(innen)

Klaus Heine, Department o f Geography, University o f Regensburg, Germany.