The Amspoort Silts, northern Namib desert (Namibia): Formation, age and palaeoclimatic evidence of river-end deposits

Geomorphology

Volumn 64, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 299-314

  Eitel, Bernard ^a   Kadereit, A ^b   Blumel W D ^c   Huser K ^d   Kromer, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amspoort Silts; Little Ice Age; Luminescence dating; Namibia; Radiocarbon dating; River end deposits

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARIDIFICATION; DESERT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; RIVER SYSTEM; RUNOFF;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NAMIB DESERT; NAMIBIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 11244296320     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2004.07.006     Document Type: Article

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