Palaeoecology of Africa, volume 15

1. Auflage 1982
ISBN: 978-90-6191-257-6
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Palaeoecology of Africa

This reference provides up-to-date information on research in many different disciplines which give an overall insight into the environmental history of Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vogel, J. C.

Vogel, J.C.

Voigt, E.A.

Partridge, T.C.

van Zinderen Bakker, E.M.

Coetzee, J.A.K.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Caves and fossil sites; Some preliminary observations on the stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Kromdraai B Hominid site; New perspectives on taphonomy, palaeoecology and chronology of the Kromdraai apeman; Cycles of deposition and erosion in the Swartkrans cave Deposit; A study of a last interglacial shell midden and bone accumulation at Herolds Bay, Cape Province, South Africa; Aspects of the Northern Cape Pleistocene project; Brief comments on ‘Sedimentological characteristics of the ‘Red Muds’ at Makapansgat Limeworks’; Later stone age inhabitants of the Agulhas Region, CP Palaeoclimates; The main stages of the Late Quaternary evolution of the Kalahari region, Southern Africa; African palaeoclimates 18 000 yrs BP; Pollen analyses of Late Cainozoic deposits in the Transvaal, South Africa, and their bearing on palaeoclimates; High levels of Lake Malawi during the late Quaternary; Late Quaternary sediments and climatic change in Swaziland; Cenozoic stratigraphy; Lithostratigraphy of Cenozoic sediments between Cape Town and Eland’s Bay; Late Cenozoic stratigraphy of the Karonga area in the; On the aeolianite-red sand relationship in coastal Natal; A note on the dorbanks (duripans) of South Africa; Calcretes and their decalcification around Rundu, Okavangoland, South West Africa Namib; Spatial variations in linear dune morphology and sediments in the Namib sand sea; Observations on calcrete and recent calcic horizons in relation to landforms, central Namib desert; Aspects of Namib geomorphology: a doline karst; The age of the Kuiseb river silt terrace at Homeb; Aspects of a suite of Quaternary conglomeratic sediments in the Kuiseb valley, Namibia; The evidence of Coleoptera in dating the Namib desert re-examined; Distribution patterns of reptiles as indicators of geomorphological events in the Namib desert; Palynological studies of Pleistocene sediment cores from Walvis Ridge.

Über Autor(innen)

J.C. Vogel, E.A. Voigt, T.C. Partridge,editors of the SAS QUA Editorial Committee. E.M. van Zinderen Bakker and J.A.K. Coetzee, both Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein.