Diagenesis in Okavango fan and adjacent dune deposits with implications for the record of palaeo-environmental change in Makgadikgadi-Okavango-Zambezi basin, northern Botswana

Geomorphology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 544-557

  Ringrose, Susan ^a   Huntsman Mapila, Philippa ^a   Downey, William ^a   Coetzee, Stephan ^a   Fey, Martin ^b   Vanderpost, Cornelis ^a   Vink, Bernard ^a   Kemosidile, Thebe ^a   Kolokose, Dikitso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Clay formation; Diagenesis; Flooding desiccation events; MOZ basin; TL OSL ages

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; AMORPHOUS MEDIUM; DEPOSITION; DESICCATION; DIAGENESIS; DUNE FORMATION; FLOODPLAIN; FORMATION MECHANISM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POREWATER; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; MAKGADIKGADI; OKAVANGO BASIN; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZAMBEZI RIVER;

EID: 52749095564     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.02.008     Document Type: Article

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