This reference provides up-to-date information on research in many different disciplines which give an overall insight into the environmental history of Africa.
Meteorology and climate: Climatic fluctuations in the arid belt of the
Old World since the Last Glacial maximum; possible causes and future
implications; Some implications of GATE results for Saharan dust transports
across the Atlantic; Meteorological patterns and the transport of mineral
dust from the North African continent; Indicators of climate on land; Pluvial
and arid phases in the Sahara: The role of non-climatic factors; Soil
accumulations and climatic variations in Western Sahara; Sand circulation in
the Sahara: Geomorphological relations between the Sahara desert and its
Margins; Dune forms and wind regime, Mauritania, West Africa: Implications
for past climate; Eolian dust from the Sahara desert; Young Pleistocene loess
as an indicator for the climate in the Mediterranean area; Fluvial processes
in the Sahara; Present and past geomorphic evidences in the development of a
badlands landscape: Zin V alley, Northern Negev, Israel; The relative
importance of climate and local hydrogeological factors in influencing
lake-level fluctuations; Isotopic identification of Saharian ground-waters,
groundwater formation in the past Indicators of climate in marine sediments;
Climate indicators in marine sediments off Northwest Africa A critical
review; Marine clay sedimentation and climate in the Late Quaternary off
North west Africa (Abstract); Variations of the surface water temperatures
along the Eastern North Atlantic continental margin (Sediment surface
samples, Holocene climatic optimum, and Last Glacial maximum); The Late
Quaternary marine paleo-environments between Europe and Africa; Late
Quaternary West African climate inferred from palynology of Atlantic deep-sea
cores; Upwelling and climate off Northwest Africa during the Late Quaternary;
Late Quaternary deep-sea record on Northwest African dust supply and wind
circulation; Reference sections on land; The Sahelian zone and the problems
of desertification climatic and anthropogenic causes of desert
encroachment; Northwestern Sahara margin: Terrestrial stratigraphy of the
Upper Quaternary and some paleoclimatic implications; The littoral deposits
of the Saharian Atlantic coast since 150 000 years B.P.; Pleistocene lakes in
the Shati area, Fezzan (27°30'N); The Southwestern Sahara margin: Sediments
and climatic changes during the Recent Quaternary; Modelling of climate and
plant cover in the Sahara for 5 500 B.P. and 18 000 B.P.; Climatological
aspects of the spatial and temporal variations of the Southern Sahara margin;
Late Quaternary changes in lake-levels and diatom assemblages on the
Southeastern margin of the Sahara; The paleoclimate of the Central Sahara,
Libya, and the Libyan Desert; Holocene biogeographical variations along the
Northwestern African coast (28°-19°N). Palaeoclimati Implications; General
aspects: Comparison of Late-Quaternary climatic evolutions in the Sahara and
the Namib-Kalahari region; End of the Last Interglacial: A predictive model
of the future?
J.A. Coetzee, E.M. van Zinderen Bakker, both Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein.
