Geomorphic evolution of the Ntem alluvial basin and physiogeographic evidence for Holocene environmental changes in the rain forest of SW Cameroon (Central Africa) - Preliminary results

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband

Volumn 145, Issue , 2006, Pages 63-79

  Runge, Jürgen ^a   Eisenberg, Joachim ^a   Sangen, Mark ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BASIN EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; NEOTECTONICS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PEBBLE; PLIOCENE; RAINFOREST;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 38849176209     PISSN: 00442798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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