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• catalog abstract ""This book is devoted exclusively to the Cenozoic era in southern Africa. The authors explore a variety of themes within this time frame, beginning with the evolution of the major landforms of the subcontinent: the old landscapes of southern Africa are host to a wide variety of deposits of differing ages. Special emphasis is placed on the cave fills of the interior, whose rich yield of early hominid and faunal remains have focused the attention of a host of paleoanthropologists and paleontologists on South Africa. These remains, and their implications for an understanding of patterns and mechanisms of evolution form the subjects of separate major contributions. Other themes include Cenozoic volcanism, paleofold hydrology, periglacial features, wetlands, vegetation history as reconstructed from pollen and macro-plant remains, environmental isotopes, and the Quaternary archaeological record. In a concluding synthesis, evidence from all of these sources is used to trace the evolution of climates through the past 65 million years. This book will be an essential work of reference for students and researchers in the fields of geology, paleontology hominid evolution, and paleoclimatology. It brings together in a single volume a wealth of new evidence on how the environments of the southern part of Africa have changed since Cretaceous times and examines the role of these changes in the emergence and development of our early ancestors."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12041681.
• catalog contributor b12041682.
• catalog created "2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
• catalog description ""This book is devoted exclusively to the Cenozoic era in southern Africa. The authors explore a variety of themes within this time frame, beginning with the evolution of the major landforms of the subcontinent: the old landscapes of southern Africa are host to a wide variety of deposits of differing ages. Special emphasis is placed on the cave fills of the interior, whose rich yield of early hominid and faunal remains have focused the attention of a host of paleoanthropologists and paleontologists on South Africa. These remains, and their implications for an understanding of patterns and mechanisms of evolution form the subjects of separate major contributions.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "It brings together in a single volume a wealth of new evidence on how the environments of the southern part of Africa have changed since Cretaceous times and examines the role of these changes in the emergence and development of our early ancestors."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Macro-scale geomorphic evolution of southern Africa / T.C. Partridge, R.R. Maud -- Deposits of the south eastern and southern coasts / R.R. Maud, G.A. Botha -- Deposits of the west coast / J. Pether, D.L. Roberts, J.D. Ward -- Fluvial deposits and drainage evolution / M.C.J. De Wit, T.R. Marshall, T.C. Partridge -- Eolian deposits / N. Lancaster -- Colluvial deposits / G.A. Botha, T.C. Partridge -- Hominid-bearing cave and tufa deposits / T.C. Partridge -- Paleosols and duricrusts / G.A. Botha -- Lakes and pans / T.C. Partridge, L. Scott -- Estuarine deposits / R.R. Maud -- Kalahari group sediments / I.G. Haddon -- Cenozoic volcanism / D. Phillips [and others] -- Slackwater sediments and paleofloods / P.K. Zawada -- Periglacial features / S. Grab -- Wetlands / T.S. McCarthy, P.J. Hancox -- Stable light isotopes and environments in the southern African quaternary and late Pliocene / J.A. Lee-Thorp, A.S. Talma -- The fossil hominids / P.V. Tobias -- Major features of neogene mammalian evolution in Africa / E.S. Vrba -- Micromammals / D.M. Avery -- Pollen / L. Scott -- Cenozoic macro-plants / M.K. Bamford -- The quaternary archeological record in southern Africa / P.J. Mitchell -- Evolution of Cenozoic climates / P.D. Tyson, T.C. Partridge.".
• catalog description "Other themes include Cenozoic volcanism, paleofold hydrology, periglacial features, wetlands, vegetation history as reconstructed from pollen and macro-plant remains, environmental isotopes, and the Quaternary archaeological record. In a concluding synthesis, evidence from all of these sources is used to trace the evolution of climates through the past 65 million years. This book will be an essential work of reference for students and researchers in the fields of geology, paleontology hominid evolution, and paleoclimatology.".
• catalog extent "x, 406 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0195125304 (cl. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "Oxford monographs on geology and geophysics ; no. 40".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Africa, Southern.".
• catalog subject "551.7/8/0968 21".
• catalog subject "Geology Africa, Southern.".
• catalog subject "Geology, Stratigraphic Cenozoic.".
• catalog subject "Paleontology Africa, Southern.".
• catalog subject "Paleontology Cenozoic.".
• catalog subject "QE690 .C436 2000".
• catalog tableOfContents "Macro-scale geomorphic evolution of southern Africa / T.C. Partridge, R.R. Maud -- Deposits of the south eastern and southern coasts / R.R. Maud, G.A. Botha -- Deposits of the west coast / J. Pether, D.L. Roberts, J.D. Ward -- Fluvial deposits and drainage evolution / M.C.J. De Wit, T.R. Marshall, T.C. Partridge -- Eolian deposits / N. Lancaster -- Colluvial deposits / G.A. Botha, T.C. Partridge -- Hominid-bearing cave and tufa deposits / T.C. Partridge -- Paleosols and duricrusts / G.A. Botha -- Lakes and pans / T.C. Partridge, L. Scott -- Estuarine deposits / R.R. Maud -- Kalahari group sediments / I.G. Haddon -- Cenozoic volcanism / D. Phillips [and others] -- Slackwater sediments and paleofloods / P.K. Zawada -- Periglacial features / S. Grab -- Wetlands / T.S. McCarthy, P.J. Hancox -- Stable light isotopes and environments in the southern African quaternary and late Pliocene / J.A. Lee-Thorp, A.S. Talma -- The fossil hominids / P.V. Tobias -- Major features of neogene mammalian evolution in Africa / E.S. Vrba -- Micromammals / D.M. Avery -- Pollen / L. Scott -- Cenozoic macro-plants / M.K. Bamford -- The quaternary archeological record in southern Africa / P.J. Mitchell -- Evolution of Cenozoic climates / P.D. Tyson, T.C. Partridge.".
• catalog title "The Cenozoic of southern Africa / edited by T.C. Partridge and R.R. Maud.".
• catalog type "text".