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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"late Quaternary Palaeoenvironments"”.
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Late quaternary palaeoenvironments at Vankervelsvlei, near Knysna, South Africa
This dissertation outlines the results of a study undertaken to describe the environmental history of Vankervelsvlei, a schwingmoor-type bog near Knysna on the south coast of South Africa. The study relies heavily on the use of fossil pollen as an indicator of vegetation change from which …
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Late quaternary palaeoenvironments of the Sandveld, Western Cape Province, South Africa
… prompts a fresh synthesis as to the nature of late Quaternary environmental changes in the southwestern Cape's fynbos biome. The study is centred on Verlorenvlei, a remote coastal lake and swamp system which is ideally situated to investigate the complex interactions between late Holocene …
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Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of the southern Cape, South Africa palynological evidence from three coastal wetlands
… research in southern Africa, the late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental history of the region remains incomplete as palaeoclimatic proxy records are temporally and spatially discontinuous. The southern Cape is a key focus area within this region as it encompasses the Fynbos Biome, a …
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Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments and Middle-Late Stone Age habitat preferences in the Nakuru-Naivasha Basin, Kenya: phytolith-based evidence from the site of Prospect Farm
… mosaic refugia may have existed here during the late Quaternary period. Such putative refugia are posited to have been centered around highland lake basins that could have buffered human populations, plant, and faunal communities from the most severe deteriorations of climate during the last …
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Late-quaternary environmental change at Eastbourne, East Sussex
This study is an examination of the late-Quaternary palaeoenvironments of the Eastbourne area, The principal techniques employed are pollen, Foraminifera, Ostracoda, Mollusca and sediment particle size analyses. The lithostratigraphic investigation, using hand auger and a commercial drilling rig, …