This text includes comprehensive and up-to-date information on research in many different disciplines giving an overall insight into the environmental history of Africa.
Foreword; Mécanismes climatiques actuels et paléoclimats au Sahara;
Run-off and fluvial formation processes in the Tibesti mountains as
indicators of climatic history in the central Sahara during the late
Pleistocene and Holocene; Contributions to the geo-ecology and landscape
history of the Messak-Mangueni escarpment (central Sahara); Paléolimnologie
des lacs du bassin Tchadien au Quaternaire recent; Four abstracts of
publications on the Sahara; Late Quaternary palaeo-environments of the Sahara
region; Report on palynological research in Egypt; Prehistory and
geomorphology in Middle Egypt; Diatomées et évolution de trois milieux
Ethiopiens d 'a ltitu d e differente, au cours du Quaternaire supérieur; Late
Quaternary precipitation estimates for the Ziway-Shala basin, Southern
Ethiopia; PIio-Pleistocene environments in south-central Ethiopia; Résultats
préliminaires sur la faune des rongeurs de la formation Pliocène de Haddar
(Ethiopie); Aspects of the glaciation of Mt. Elgon, East Africa; Quaternary
stratigraphy of Mount Kenya: A reconnaissance; Holocene environment and
Capsian subsistence in Algeria; Les formations sabloargilleuses et calcaires
PIio-Pléistocènes de Louga (Sénégal); A late Quaternary continuous climatic
record from palynology of three marine cores off Senegal; Palynological
aspects of the sedimentary basin off the Cameroon coast, in relation to
stratigraphy and palaeoecology; Palynological study in the Niger delta; Le
Quater-naire supérieux du plateau continental Congolaise. Exemple d'
évolution paléoocéanographique d'une plate-forme depuis environ 50, 000 ans.;
Beitrag zur historischen Tiergeographie Südafrikas; Late Quaternary events in
the Chilwa Basin, Malawi; The equatorial rain forest: A geological history
(Book announcement).
J.A. Coetzee, E.M. van Zinderen Bakker, both Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein.
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