1st Edition

A Land Between Two Niles Quaternary geology and biology of the Central Sudan

Edited By Martin A.J. Williams, D.A. Adamson Copyright 1982
258 Pages
by CRC Press

258 Pages
by Routledge

Contents: Alluvial history: Geology, groundwater hydrology, vegetation, soils & palaeoecology. Maps, figs., photos.

1 Alluvium and agriculture in the semi-arid world 2 Quaternary environments in Northern Africa 3 Palaeobotanical speculations and Quaternary environments in the Sudan 4 Geology of the central Sudan 5 Stratigraphy and ground-water geology of the Gezira Plain, central Sudan 6 The plains of the central and southern Sudan 7 Landforms and soils of the Gezira: A Quaternary legacy of the Blue and White Nile rivers 8 The vegetation of the central Sudan 9 Palaeogeography of the Gezira and of the lower Blue and White Nile valleys 10 The integrated Nile

Biography

Martin A.J. Williams (Edited by) , D.A. Adamson (Edited by) Macquarie University, Australia