Holocene environmental change in the Okavango Panhandle, northwest Botswana

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1302-1322

  Nash, David J ^a   Meadows, Michael E ^b   Gulliver, Vana L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; RAIN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION;

HOLOCENE; PALAEOECOLOGY; RADIOCARBON ASSAYS; WET PHASE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; OKAVANGO DELTA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33744786836     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.11.004     Document Type: Article

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