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- Library Collection RecordModern soil samples from Western Uganda, from a range of ten plant communities belonging to five African phytogeographical regions and distributed along an altitudinal gradient from 650 m (grass…Publication Date 1997
- palaeobotany
- palynology
- modern pollen spectra
- vegetation communities
- altitudinal and physiognomical gradient
- Correspondence analysis
- Western Uganda
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe reconstruction of African tropical grassland history during the late Holocene can be carried out using phytolith analysis. Fossil phytolith assemblages from Lake Guiers, in the Sahelian region of…Publication Date 1997
- phytoliths
- tracers
- Paleoenvironment
- Holocene
- savannas
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDetailed reconstructions of vegetation structure are critical to understanding morphological and behavioral adaptations of Plio-Pleistocene African hominids. Savanna grassland habitats are often…Publication Date 1997
- bovid
- vegetation
- grasslands
- bipedality
- savanna
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPrevious archaeological and palaeoenvironmental work relating to the late Quaternary of the Lesotho highlands, southern AFrica, is reviewed. Emphasis is placed upon the region's importance for…Publication Date 1996
- palaeobotany
- palaeoenvironmental data
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordEvidence on late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of the western and southwestern Cape of South Africa has facilitated detailed reconstructions mainly for the mountains, where organic sediment…Publication Date 1996
- palaeobotany
- palaeoecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe general characteristics of global vegetation during the middle Pliocene warm period can be reconstructed from fossil pollen and plant megafossil data. The largest differences between Pliocene…Publication Date 1996
- palaeoclimate
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSediment composition, grain size and clay mineral record of a high-resolution sediment core from the continental slope off Namibia was investigated to gain information on the deposition of…Publication Date 1996
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTrophic structure and composition are examined in two important biotic records, one the Paleogene of Wyoming and Montana, and the other from the Neogene of Pakistan. The Paleogene sequence spans…Publication Date 1995
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Pliocene epoch represents an important transition from a climate regime with high-frequency, low-amplitude oscillations when the Northern Hemisphere lacked substantial ice sheets, to the typical…Publication Date 1994
- palaeobotany
- climate change
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Namib and Kalahari deserts preserve evidence of a long history of aridification in southern Africa. The earliest sedimentation within the Kalahari Basin dates to the Late Cretaceous, but the…Publication Date 1993
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- palaeoecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Pretoria Saltpan is a circular crater 1130 m in diameter and is situated some 40 km N of Pretoria (lat. 25°34'30''/long. 28°04'59''E). A recent tube sampling and…Publication Date 1993
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPolleniferous sediments from southern Africa associated with past warm episodes before the Last Glacial Maximum, are rare. Interpretation of environmental conditions during these phases are…Publication Date 1993
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe development of savanna-type grasslands is a relatively recent phenomena in East Africa. The stable carbon isotopic composition of paleosol carbonates from fossil localities in East Africa show…Publication Date 1992
- palaeobotany
- grasslands
- savanna
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMethods used in the analysis of 1163 pieces of charcoal from Elands Bay, South Africa, are described. Results from three archaeological sites (Tortoise Cave, Spring Cave and Mike Taylors Midden) show…Publication Date 1992
- South Africa
- Elands Bay
- Holocene
- environment
- charcoal
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA pollen sequence in a relatively young hyrax dung midden in the Orange Free State, South Africa, shows marked changes in composition which can be related to environmental fluctuations. The midden…Publication Date 1992
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract availablePublication Date 1991
- palaeobotany
- grassland
- soils
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe fossil locality of Fort Ternan, Kenya, preserves the remains of the middle Miocene hominoidKenyapithecus wickeri, and a reconstruction of the paleoenvironment of this site offers important…Publication Date 1991
- middle Miocene
- Bovids
- functional morphology
- Kenyapithecus
- paleoecology
- hominoid evolution
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPollen evidence from two cores recovered from the Mpulungu basin, South lake Tanganyika, reveals a significant pattern of changes in vegetation in relation to climatic fluctuations between 25,000 and…Publication Date 1991
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Karoo Sequence spans an age ranging from Carboniferous to Jurassic and occurs in intra-cratonic and graben-rift basins throughout southern Africa. All of the subcontinent 039;s bituminous,…Publication Date 1990
- plant anatomy
- palaeoecology
- grasslands
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordStructural and stratigraphic aspects of the Lebowa Granite Suite (the granites) and Rustenburg Layered Suite (the basic rocks) are examined and compared in various compartments of the Bushveld…Publication Date 1990
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAn extensive search was made for distinctive shock-metamorphic effects in order to test the theory that the Bushveld Complex (BC) was formed by the impact of large extraterrestrial objects. Field and…Publication Date 1990
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordHyrax middens in relatively dry parts of Africa preserve plant material which includes pollen. The bottoms of two stratified hyrax dung middens from Blydefontein Basin in the Karoo shrubland of South…Publication Date 1990
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRegional water budget tendencies reported by 14C-dated field data are correlated with Late Quaternary cooling and warming phases. Areal frequency distribution analysis of these correlations shows…Publication Date 1989
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPetrographical and palynological coal-quality investigations relating to variations in one of the best-known and well-researched coalfields in Africa, the Witbank coalfield, and one of the most…Publication Date 1989
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPollen analysis of vlei or swamp sediments from the Nuweveldberg Mountains in the Central Karoo yields a vegetation history spanning the last 760 years. It sheds light on the local vegetation shifts…Publication Date 1989
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA review of Late Quaternary palaeoclimatic data derived from several pollen sequences, between ca. 22 and 34°S in Southern Africa, shows a degree of similarity in temperature and moisture variations…Publication Date 1989
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary 1. The origin and history of aridlands and their vegetational cover is closely related to geological history, especially in relation to plate tectonics, mountain building, land-and sea-level…Publication Date 1988
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordResults of fossil pollen studies in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa covering the last 32,000 years are surveyed in this paper. This research, conducted between 1951 and 1985, was mostly…Publication Date 1988
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPollen spectra in a peat deposit from a mountainous area near Tate Vondo in Venda have been grouped into three zones. The oldest zone of c. 12,000-10,000 yr B.P. contains mainly grassland and fynbos…Publication Date 1987
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordEquus Cave, in Quaternary tufa near Taung in the semiarid woodland of the southern Kalahari, yielded 2.5 m of sediment in which a rich assemblage of bones and coprolites was preserved. The fossils…Publication Date 1987
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Mfolozi and Hluhluwe Valleys of southeastern Africa are representative of a sub-tropical biome and have archaeological evidence for farming settlement spanning more than 1500 years. By collecting…Publication Date 1984
- southern Africa
- sub-tropics
- farming communities
- soils
- plant communities
- site distributions
- iron production
- Environmental change
- conservation
- palaeobotany
- agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Plio-Pleistocene sediments of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, are well known for their records of both hominid evolution and the paleoenvironments where these early hominids lived. This paper…Publication Date 1984
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRecognition of (late) Tertiary shorelines on continental coasts is becoming increasingly common. It is argued that the elevations of such features are central to their approximate dating and the…Publication Date 1984
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPollen analyses of rare spring deposits in the Transvaal, South Africa, ranging back to roughly 35 000 B.P., were carried out. A photographic record of 140 types of palynomorphs was made. Indicators…Publication Date 1982
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPollen spectra from cores of organic spring deposits from the Transvaal provide evidence for the climatic evolution of the province during the last 35,000 yr B.P. or more. The past climatic phases…Publication Date 1982
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIt was thought for a long time that equatorial regions had remained virtually unchanged at least since the Tertiary period -- it is only from the Late Tertiary that we can talk of the present…Publication Date 1982
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTo provide information on the nature of the plant food diet probably available to Australopithecus africanus in the Makapansgat area, under climatic conditions similar to those at present, wild plant…Publication Date 1981
- Makapansgat
- Wild Plant Foods
- Early Hominid Niche
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordExtensive systems of fixed linear dunes occur in the Kalahari region of southern Africa, from 28°S to 16°30'S. They provide evidence for large-scale expansion of arid climates in the…Publication Date 1981
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAn examination of sediment from piston cores and 3.5-kHz seismic reflection profiles from the northern Cape Basin and southern Angola Basin reveal a contrasting history of depositional processes in…Publication Date 1980
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe development of reliable paleoclimatic maps at a global scale requires data at the following three levels of analysis: (1) well-recorded observations of evenly positioned, well-dated geological…Publication Date 1979
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordArtifact occurrences from the alluvial fills of the Lower Vaal Basin, South Africa, are summarized with reference to a revised stratigraphic framework for these deposits. The Older Gravels, Younger…Publication Date 1978
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe dating of the Stone Age sequence in southern Africa has been considerably revised over the last decade, and one of the anomalies which has resulted is that the Middle Stone Age, now dated to…Publication Date 1978
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPaleomagnetic pole positions, ocean-floor magnetic anomalies and least-squares fits of continental edges show that most Phanerozoic orogenic belts have formed at or near the borders of continents and…Publication Date 1976
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis article deals with the most important aspects of nearly twenty years of intensive study of the pollen-and-spore content of Tertiary sediments in some parts of tropical South America, Africa and…Publication Date 1968
- palaeobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSUMMARY. * 1The existing information about the Tertiary geology and elimate of Africa is collated and discussed critically. * 2There is no evidence for a revolution in the climate and fauna of Africa…Publication Date 1952
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- southern Africa