Victoria Falls: Mosi-oa-tunya - The smoke that thunders

Geomorphological Landscapes of the World

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 143-153

  Moore, Andy ^a   Cotterill, Fenton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Basalt; Batoka gorges; drainage evolution; hominin evolution; Kalahari Plateau; knickpoint retreat; Zambezi River

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856995529     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3055-9_15     Document Type: Chapter

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