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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Southwest Africa"”.
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Structural-metamorphic imprint on part of the Namaqua mobile belt in Southwest Africa
The cross-section of the part of the Namaqua Mobile Belt investigated, comprises tectonic domains differing in structural and metamorphic character. The upper-crustal Richtersveld Province is separated from the lower-crustal central zone by a marginal zone across which there is a sharp increase in …
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Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of late Holocene climate dynamics in Southwest Africa using a multi-proxy characterization of Namaqualand mudbelt sediments
… late Holocene climatic changes in southern Africa, a dearth of available evidence has resulted in a frag- mented view of the recent past. South Africa has been identified as a key focus region for palaeoclimatic studies, as it reflects the dynamics of both tropical and temperate climate …
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Geology of the South-Eastern Richtersveld
… between· the geology of the- western Cape and southwest Africa. During _ the present investigation a. contoured geological map of the south-eastern Richtersveld on a scale of 1:25,000, was constructed. 'Four hundred and graphic modal analyses ·were .made; and twenty-five chemical analyses were …
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Comparative analysis of the seasonal sea surface temperature & wind stress in the four major eastern boundary current systems
The coastal upwelling regions along northwest Africa (the Canary system), southwest Africa (the Benguela system), North America (the California system), and South America (the Peru-Chile system) were studied and compared on a seasonal timescale. A 17 -year NOAA Pathfinder Sea Surface Temperature …
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Richard Thurnwald and the Transimperial Fate of German Colonial Ethnology, 1896-1926
… brutal suppression of the Herero Rebellion in Southwest Africa (c. 1906), Germany faced rising international scrutiny over her capacity to economically develop her colonies while simultaneously executing the *mission civilisatrice* – the inherent contradiction within the concept of “Sacred …
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Morphogenetic landscapes :
… example of such a habitat is the Namib Desert in southwest Africa. It is not only one of the hottest and driest places or Earth, it is also the geologically oldest desert in the world at 55 million years. These parameters converge to create one of the most evolutionary excited environments in the …
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The Restinga
… of a love triangle, but it is set in the exotic African landscape of pre-war colonial Angola in 1960, where the author spent her childhood. <em>The Restinga</em> evolved from a short story presented at a graduate fiction workshop led by Joseph and Amanda Boyden at the University of New Orleans’ …