Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

In memoriam / Johanna Alida Coetzee (1921-2007) / Klaus Heine -- Geomorphological and palaeoenvironmental research in the south-central Sahara in review / Roland Baumhauer, Peter Felix-Henningsen & Brigitta Schütt -- Comparison of proxy-based palaeoenvironmental reconstructions and hindcast modelled annual precipitation -- a review of Holocene palaeoenvironmental research in the central Sahara / Brigitta Schütt & Ian Krause -- Holocene palaeoenvironmental changes in central Sahara inferred from Seggedim scarp foot depression (NE-Niger) / Roland Baumhauer [and others] -- The desert in the Sahara : transitions and boundaries / Erhard Schulz [and others] -- Palaeo-climatic evidence of soil development on Sahelian ancient dunes of different age in Niger, Chad and Mauritania / Peter Felix-Henningsen, Peter Kornatz & Einar Eberhardt -- Are there valuable pedological palaeoenvironmental indicators in northern Chad? / Ludger Herrmann, Mohamed Mounkaila & Frieder Graef -- New discovery of rock fulgurites in the central Sahara / Barbara Sponholz -- Fluvial geomorphology and palaeohydrology of a small tributary of the Plateau de Mangueni, NE Niger / Jan Krause & Brigitta Schütt -- Palaeoecology of the giant catfish (Arius gigas, Ariidae) in Holocene Saharan and tropical West African waters / Hélène Jousse & Wim Van Neer -- Neolithic domestication and pastoralism in central Sahara : the cattle necropolis of Mankhor (Tadrart algérienne) / Michel Tauveron, Karl Heinz Striedter & Nadjib Ferhat -- The microstratigraphy and micromorphology of a Holocene palaeolake in southern Tunisia / Abdelhakim Abichou -- Different dimensions of recent vegetation dynamics of North and West Africa / Brian Beckers & Brigitta Schütt -- Landmines, drugs and justice : the recent history of two Saharan mountains (Adrar des Iforas/Mali and Air Mts./Niger) / Issa Ousseïni, Aboubacar Adamou & Erhard Schulz -- The Sahelian and Saharan dune systems of Niger : a comparison of their granulometric characteristics / Ibrahim Mamane Sani & Issa Ousseïni.

"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."--Jacket.