Author: Robert V. RuhePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Erosion Surface of Central African Interior High Plateaus
Erosion Surfaces of Central African Interior High Plateaus
Author: M. V. RuheErosion Surfaces of Central African Interior High Plateaus
Author: Robert V. RuhePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erosion
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The African Erosion Surface
Author: Kevin BurkePublisher: 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 surfaces of central african interior high plateaurs
Author: Robert V. RuheGeology and Resource Potential of the Congo Basin
Author: Maarten J. de WitPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642294820
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
This book summarizes the geomorphology, geology, geochronology, geophysics and mineral resources of the Congo Basin, one of the world’s most enigmatic and poorly understood major intra-continental sedimentary basins, and its flanking areas of Central Africa. It provides an up to date analysis of the large region’s origin and evolution. The book’s nineteen chapters take the reader through the entire basement history, as well as the Basin’s ca. 700 million years of cover sequences. Starting from its Archean cratons and Proterozoic mobile belts, and proceeding through the Phanerozoic sequences, including the most recent Cenozoic successions, the book also explores the present drainage systems and the subtle but complex topography of the Congo Basin. It also presents and evaluates new basin models and related dynamic processes, as well as revised correlation schemes with its Gondwana counterparts in South America, all of which provide key insights into its rich diamond deposits and other mineral wealth, which are documented in the final chapters. A specific feature of this book is its synthesis, performed by teams of active experts, of a vast amount of geoscientific data previously only recorded in research reports, company reports, survey bulletins, and scattered journal articles and books. The sheer size of the Congo Basin (ca.1.8 million km2, or just under half the area of the EU) and Central Africa (some 7 million km2, or more than 70% of the area of the USA) will make this a sought-after source of information and inspiration on this unique region.
Colonial Geological Surveys, 1947-56
Author: Frank DixeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chromite
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
French-speaking Central Africa
Author: Library of Congress. African SectionPublisher: Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Quaternary and Environmental Research on East African Mountains
Author: W.H. MahaneyPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000443914
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Twenty-six papers form a summary of research on glacial history, paleoclimatology, biogeography, ecosystem disequilibrium. Focus is on detailed chrono-stratigraphic, glacial geologic, and vertebrate paleontologic problems.
Studies in East African Geography and Development
Author: S.H. OmindePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520328213
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived