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Palaeoecology of Quaternary Drylands

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Editors:
  1. Werner Smykatz-Kloss
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  2. Peter Felix-Henningsen
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences (LNEARTH, volume 102)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. The Importance of Desert Margins as Indicators for Global Climatic Fluctuations (Introduction)

    • W. Smykatz-Kloss, P. Felix-Henningsen
    Pages 1-3

  3. The chemistry of playa-lake-sediments as a tool for the reconstruction of Holocene environmental conditions - a case study from the central Ebro basin

    • Brigitta Schütt
    Pages 5-30

  4. Environmental changes in the Central Sahara during the Holocene - The Mid-Holocene transition from freshwater lake into sebkha in the Segedim depression, NE Niger

    • Roland Baumhauer, Erhard Schulz, Simon Pomel
    Pages 31-45

  5. Genesis and Paleo-ecological Interpretation of Swamp Ore Deposits at Sahara Paleo-lakes of East Niger

    • Peter Felix-Henningsen
    Pages 47-72

  6. Fulgurites as palaeoclimatic indicators - the proof of fulgurite fragments in sand samples

    • Barbara Sponholz
    Pages 73-78

  7. Alluvial loess in the Central Sinai: Occurrence, origin, and palaeoclimatological consideration

    • Konrad Rögner, Katharina Knabe, Bernd Roscher, Werner Smykatz-Kloss, Ludwig Zöller
    Pages 79-99

  8. The reconstruction of palaeoclimatological changes from mineralogical and geochemical compositions of loess and alluvial loess profiles

    • Werner Smykatz-Kloss, Bettina Smykatz-Kloss, Natalie Naguib, Ludwig Zöller
    Pages 101-118

  9. Geochemical implications for changing dust supply by the Indian Monsoon system to the Arabian Sea during the last glacial cycle

    • Dirk C. Leuschner, Frank Sirocko, Georg Schettler, Dieter Garbe-Schönberg
    Pages 119-135

  10. Little Ice Age climatic fluctuations in the Namib Desert, Namibia, and adjacent areas: Evidence of exceptionally large floods from slack water deposits and desert soil sequences

    • Klaus Heine
    Pages 137-165

  11. Palaeoenvironmental Transitions Between 22 ka and 8 ka in Monsoonally Influenced Namibia

    • Bernhard Eitel, Wolf Dieter Blümel, Klaus Hüser
    Pages 167-194

  12. Aeolian sedimentation in arid and semi-arid environments of Western Mongolia

    • Jörg Grunert, Frank Lehmkuhl
    Pages 195-218

  13. Ostracod ecology of alluvial loess deposits in an eastern Tian Shan palaeo-lake (NW China)

    • S. Mischke, J. Hofmann, M. E. Schudack
    Pages 219-231

  14. Critical comments on the interpretation and publication of 14C, TL/OSL and 230Th/U dates and on the problem of teleconnections between global climatic processes

    • Dieter Jäkel
    Pages 233-242

  15. Back Matter

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About this book

The twelve contributions in this volume represent  the results of a ten year interdisciplinary workshop on "desert margins" - concerned with the geomorphological, geochemica, mineralogical, sedimentological, soil scientific characterisation of (semi-) deserts in Spain, Africa, Arabia and China. Desert sediments and soils as well as processes and characteristics of their formation are regarded from different geoscientific perspectives. The subjects of research include the development of desert soils and landscapes, the formation of (alluvial) loess, swamp ores, fulgurites and floodout sediments and focus on the reconstruction of palaeoecological events and changes. A critical study of dating methods rounds off the book.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Palaeoecology of Quaternary Drylands

  • Editors: Werner Smykatz-Kloss, Peter Felix-Henningsen

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b92353

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-40345-6Published: 15 December 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07319-9Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-44930-0Published: 19 January 2004

  • Series ISSN: 0930-0317

  • Series E-ISSN: 1613-2580

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 250

  • Number of Illustrations: 374 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Paleontology, Earth Sciences, general, Geochemistry, Geology, Geophysics/Geodesy

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