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Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa : physical and human dimensions / edited by Jasper Knight, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Stefan W. Grab, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Description
xi, 436 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm
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QC884.2.C5 Q83 2016
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Subject(s)
Paleoclimatology
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Quaternary
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Paleoclimatology
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Africa, Southern
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Climatic changes
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Africa, Southern
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Knight, Jasper
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Grab, S. W.
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The context of Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa / Jasper Knight and Stefan W. Grab
2. A brief geological history of southern Africa / Steve McCourt
3. A continental-scale perspective on landscape evolution in southern Africa during the Cenozoic / Jasper Knight and Stefan W. Grab
4. Hominin origins and evolution during the Neogene / Jason L. Heaton
5. Hominin evolution in Africa during the Quaternary / Kristian J. Carlson and Sarah Edlund
6. Quaternary environmental change on the southern African coastal plain / John S. Compton
7. Dating the southern African landscape / Stephan Woodborne
8. Glacial and periglacial geomorphology / Stefan W. Grab and Jasper Knight
9. Colluvial deposits and slope instability / Greg A. Botha, Arnaud J.A.M. Temme and Rebekah G. Singh
10. Desert dune environments / David S.G. Thomas
11. Changes in fluvial systems during the Quaternary / Stephen Tooth
12. Wetlands in southern Africa / William N. Ellery, Suzanne E. Grenfell, Michael C. Grenfell, Rebecca Powell, Donovan C. Kotze, Philip M. Marren and Jasper Knight
13. Sandy coasts / Hayley C. Cawthra and Mark D. Bateman
14. Environmental change during the Pleistocene and Holocene : estuaries and lagoons of southern Africa / Ander M. de Lecea, Andrew N. Green and J. Andrew G. Cooper
15. Soils and duricrusts / Jürgen Runge
16. Karstic systems / Karin Holmgren and Paul Shaw
17. Terrestrial ecosystem changes in the late Quaternary / Michael E. Meadows and Lynne J. Quick
18. Faunal evidence for mid- and late Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa / James S. Brink
19. Pollen, charcoal and plant macrofossil evidence of Neogene and Quaternary environments in southern Africa / Marion K. Bamford, Frank H. Neumann and Louis Scott
20. Minerogenic microfossil records of Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa / Jennifer M. Fitchett, Jasper Knight and Stefan W. Grab
21. Development of the archaeological record in southern Africa during the Earlier Stone Age / Kathleen Kuman
22. Development of the archaeological record during the Middle Stone Age of South Africa / Sarah Wurz
23. Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers and herders / Peter Mitchell
24. Southernmost Africans, archaeology and the environment during the Holocene / Maria H. Schoeman
25. Landscape-climate-human relations in the Quaternary of southern Africa / Jasper Knight, Dominic Stratford and Stefan W. Grab.
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ISBN
9781107055797 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
1107055792 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2015035034
OCLC
923794017
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