Author: Kevin Burke
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813712017
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
"In this Memoir, Burke and Gunnell draw on anglophone and francophone work to analyze the African continent's distinctive basin-and-swell topography. Exploring topics such as landforms, bauxites and laterites, fission-track studies, climatic changes, volcanic rock distribution, hotspots, mantle plumes, and rifts, as well as deep and shallow mantle geophysics, ocean floor evolution, continental flooding, and offshore sediment deposition, the authors have pieced together a coherent, continent-wide reconstruction of landscape development during the past 200 million years. Two episodes of continental breakup and the formation of ocean floor were followed by erosion that reduced the continent to a low-elevation and low-relief African Surface by Late Cretaceous times. Africa's present-day topography developed mostly during the past 30 million years as the African Surface underwent swell uplift and climate changed radically after the Antarctic ice sheet first formed. Northern hemisphere glaciation and related Sahara initiation 3 million years ago were Africa's most recent great changes."--Publisher's website.
The African Erosion Surface
Author: Kevin Burke
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813712017
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
"In this Memoir, Burke and Gunnell draw on anglophone and francophone work to analyze the African continent's distinctive basin-and-swell topography. Exploring topics such as landforms, bauxites and laterites, fission-track studies, climatic changes, volcanic rock distribution, hotspots, mantle plumes, and rifts, as well as deep and shallow mantle geophysics, ocean floor evolution, continental flooding, and offshore sediment deposition, the authors have pieced together a coherent, continent-wide reconstruction of landscape development during the past 200 million years. Two episodes of continental breakup and the formation of ocean floor were followed by erosion that reduced the continent to a low-elevation and low-relief African Surface by Late Cretaceous times. Africa's present-day topography developed mostly during the past 30 million years as the African Surface underwent swell uplift and climate changed radically after the Antarctic ice sheet first formed. Northern hemisphere glaciation and related Sahara initiation 3 million years ago were Africa's most recent great changes."--Publisher's website.
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813712017
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
"In this Memoir, Burke and Gunnell draw on anglophone and francophone work to analyze the African continent's distinctive basin-and-swell topography. Exploring topics such as landforms, bauxites and laterites, fission-track studies, climatic changes, volcanic rock distribution, hotspots, mantle plumes, and rifts, as well as deep and shallow mantle geophysics, ocean floor evolution, continental flooding, and offshore sediment deposition, the authors have pieced together a coherent, continent-wide reconstruction of landscape development during the past 200 million years. Two episodes of continental breakup and the formation of ocean floor were followed by erosion that reduced the continent to a low-elevation and low-relief African Surface by Late Cretaceous times. Africa's present-day topography developed mostly during the past 30 million years as the African Surface underwent swell uplift and climate changed radically after the Antarctic ice sheet first formed. Northern hemisphere glaciation and related Sahara initiation 3 million years ago were Africa's most recent great changes."--Publisher's website.
Erosion Surface of Central African Interior High Plateaus
The Erosion Surfaces of Zimbabwe
Author: Linley A. Lister
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erosion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erosion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Origin of Endorheic Pans on the African Erosion Surface North of Grahamstown, South Africa
Author: Judith Robyn Alistoun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical weathering
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical weathering
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Erosion Surfaces in Africa
Author: Frank Dixey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sediments (Geology)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sediments (Geology)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Erosion Surfaces of Central African Interior High Plateaus
Bulletin
Erosion Surfaces of Central African Interior High Plateaus
The Nature of the African Surface in the Southwestern Transvaal
Author: T. R. Marshall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diamond deposits
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diamond deposits
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Only in Africa
Author: Norman Owen-Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108832598
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Demonstrates how Africa's physical features, savannas and abundant grazers enabled frugivorous apes to become savanna-living hunters.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108832598
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Demonstrates how Africa's physical features, savannas and abundant grazers enabled frugivorous apes to become savanna-living hunters.