TY - BOOK AU - Runge, Jürgen TI - African Palaeoenvironments and Geomorphic Landscape Evolution: Palaeoecology of Africa Vol. 30, An International Yearbook of Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironments SN - 978-0-203-84527- 1 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Taylor & Francis KW - Bioscience KW - Earth Sciences KW - Environment & Agriculture N1 - Chapter 1 | 8 pages How it all began—Eduard van Zinderen Bakker and Palaeoecology of Africa By —Klaus Heine Chapter 2 | 18 pages Reconstructing environmental changes since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in the Geba Basin, Northern Ethiopia, by geomorphic process interpretation and land management evaluation By —Jan Moeyersons, Jean Poesen, Jan Nyssen, Jozef Deckers & Mitiku Haile Chapter 3 | 26 pages Climate reconstructions based on fluvial deposits in hyper-arid desert environments: The Namib case By —Klaus Heine Chapter 4 | 26 pages A sedimentary record of environmental change at Tsodilo Hills White Paintings Rock Shelter, Northwest Kalahari Desert, Botswana By —Andrew H. Ivester, George A. Brook, Lawrence H. Robbins, Alec C. Campbell, Michael L. Murphy & Eugene Marais Chapter 5 | 28 pages Ecosystem change during MIS 4 and early MIS 3: Evidence from Middle Stone Age sites in South Africa By —Grant Hall & Stephan Woodborne Chapter 6 | 28 pages The potential of Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Restionaceae phytoliths to reflect past environmental conditions in South Africa By —Carlos E. Cordova & Louis Scott Chapter 7 | 16 pages Topographic and hydrologic control of gully erosion phenomena in palaeolandscapes of Swaziland, Southern Africa By —Samanta Pelacani & Michael Märker Chapter 8 | 14 pages Gypsum in desert soils, subsurface crusts and host sediments (Western Desert of Egypt) By —Ashraf Mohamed, Konrad Rögner & Sixten Bussemer Chapter 9 | 24 pages New findings from geological, geomorphological and sedimentological studies on the palaeoenvironmental conditions in Southern Cameroon By —Mark Sangen, Joachim Eisenberg, Jürgen Runge, Boniface Kankeu & Mesmin Tchindjang Chapter 10 | 10 pages Palaeoclimate of Ondiri Swamp, Kikuyu, Kenya, from 1.350 to 1.810 AD By —Julian A. Ogondo, Daniel O. Olago & Eric O. Odada Chapter 11 | 28 pages A cluster-analysis-based climate classification for NE Africa By —Brigitta Schütt, Katharina Ducke & Jan Krause Chapter 12 | 52 pages Climate and palaeoenvironment evolution in north tropical Africa from the end of the Tertiary to the Upper Quaternary By —Jean Maley Chapter 13 | 22 pages An assessment of the spatial and temporal distribution of natural hazards in Central Africa By —Ine Vandecasteele, Jan Moeyersons & Philippe Trefois UR - https://doi.org/10.1201/b10542 ER -