The environmental setting within the Central Sahara was subject
to considerable changes during Late Quaternary, mainly driven by
major global climate variations, although human impact increased
constantly since Early Holocene.
Such global events can be reconstructed with the help of
reliefs, sediments and palaeosoils and their specific
morphological, chemical and mineralogical properties. The project s
focus is to ascertain new and established data on climate
variations and associated palaeoenvironmental changes within the
Central Sahara and to systematically collate and correlate them to
results obtained from the Afro-Asian dry land belt and adjacent
areas. The joint analysis of Late Quaternary landscape development
and present environmental conditions in the Central Sahara will
result in the modelling of Late Pleistocene and Holocene
palaeoenvironments, emphasising various aspects.
This book will be of interest to all concerned with
environmental changes in desert ecosystems in the past and at
present and related development problems of Saharan countries,
especially Ecologists, Botanists, Earth scientists and
Climatologists. It will be valuable for advanced undergraduates and
postgraduates as a reference for review and overview articles as
well as a source of information for new original manuscripts on the
topic of Late Pleistocene and Holocene landscape evolution in the
lower latitudes of Africa. Palaeobotanists, Palynologists,
Geomorphologists and Quaternarists will equally find this edition
useful for their work.
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