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001 2010459152
003 DLC
005 20111013143833.0
008 100520s2008 ne ab b 001 0 eng d
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050 00 $aQC884.5.A358$bG57 2008
082 04 $a916.6
100 1 $aGiresse, P.
245 10 $aTropical and sub-tropical West Africa :$bmarine and continental changes during the late Quaternary /$cby P. Giresse.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York :$bElsevier,$c2008.
300 $ax, 395 p. :$bill., maps ;$c30 cm.
490 1 $aDevelopments in Quaternary sciences ;$v10
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 359-386) and index.
505 0 $apt. 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.
650 0 $aPaleoclimatology$zAfrica, West.
650 0 $aPaleoclimatology$yHolocene.
650 0 $aPaleogeography$zAfrica, West.
650 0 $aPaleogeography$yHolocene.
650 0 $aPaleoceanography$yHolocene.
650 0 $aPaleoceanography$zAfrica, West.
650 0 $aGeology, Stratigraphic$yHolocene.
650 0 $aGeology$zAfrica, West.
830 0 $aDevelopments in Quaternary science ;$v10.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1011/2010459152-d.html