Dunes in southeastern Namibia: Evidence for Holocene environmental changes in the southwestern Kalahari based on thermoluminescence data

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 138, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 139-149

  Blumel W D ^a   Eitel, B ^b   Lang, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

^c Forschungsstelle Archaometrie der H   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dunes; Holocene; Kalahari; Namibia

Indexed keywords

DUNE EVOLUTION; HOLOCENE CLIMATE; PALAEOCLIMATE; WIND CIRCULATION;

NAMIBIA, KALAHARI DESERT;

EID: 0032055014     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00114-4     Document Type: Article

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