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BL
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656374
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Giresse, P
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| Title & Author
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Tropical and sub-tropical West Africa : : marine and continental changes during the late Quaternary /\ by P. Giresse
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed
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| Publication Statement
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands :: Elsevier,, 2008
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Developments in Quaternary sciences ;; 10
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x, 395 p. :: ill., maps ;; 30 cm
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| ISBN
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9780444529848
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: 0444529845
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-386) and index
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| Contents
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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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Paleoclimatology-- Africa, West
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Paleoclimatology-- Holocene
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Paleogeography-- Africa, West
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Paleogeography-- Holocene
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Paleoceanography-- Holocene
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Paleoceanography-- Africa, West
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Geology, Stratigraphic-- Holocene
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Geology-- Africa, West
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| LC Classification
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QC884.5.A358G57 2008
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