عنوان

Tropical and sub-tropical West Africa :

(Number (ISBN

0444529845

(Number (ISBN

9780444529848

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dltt

Title Proper

Tropical and sub-tropical West Africa :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

marine and continental changes during the late Quaternary /

First Statement of Responsibility

by P. Giresse

Edition Statement

1st ed

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Elsevier,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2008

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 395 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill., maps ;

Dimensions

30 cm

Series Title

Developments in Quaternary sciences ;

Volume Designation

10

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-386) and index

Text of Note

pt. 1. Present terrestrial environments: Geological and morphologial setting -- Atmospheric circulation, climatic mechanisms and African climate -- Characteristics of the soils and present day vegetation of tropical West Africa -- Present fluxes of suspended and dissolved matter in rivers -- Present aeolian dust transport -- pt. 2. Present oceanic environments: Atlantic Ocean circulation : leakage with climate fluctuations -- Suspended matter and particle fluxes in the eastern Atlantic -- Present oceanic deposition -- pt. 3. Deep-sea record of Late Quaternary change: Changes deduced from foraminiferal assemblages, their isotopic composition and from alkenones -- Changes deduced from other plantonic components -- An attempt to model glacial-Holocene contrasts in surface waters of the eastern Atlantic -- Changes deduced from pollen -- Changes deduced from atmospheric dust transport -- Changes deduced from carbonate depositional system -- Changes deduced from other biogenic components -- Changes deduced from clay mineral assemblages -- Sediment accumulation rates and fluxes -- pt. 4. Land-ocean boundary : continental shelf and shoreline records of Late Quaternary changes: Sea level fluctuation on the Atlantic margin of Africa during the past 125,000 years -- Successive continental shelf sedimentation related to climatic and sea level changes -- Neoformation processed (green clay grains, phosphate, and carbonate) -- pt. 5. Terrestrial evidence of Late Quaternary changes: Records in lake deposits -- Inferences from coastal peats, soils, alluvial deposits and other terrestrial evidences -- pt. 6. Climatic evolution and human presence: Lithic artifact dating and environmental context -- Landscape and recent human development implications -- Anthropogenic action and global change

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Geology-- Africa, West

Geology, Stratigraphic-- Holocene

Paleoceanography-- Africa, West

Paleoceanography-- Holocene

Paleoclimatology-- Africa, West

Paleoclimatology-- Holocene

Paleogeography-- Africa, West

Paleogeography-- Holocene

Class number

Book number

Giresse, P

Date of Transaction

20080610000000.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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