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Article: On the dry valleys of the Kalahari: documentary evidence of environmental change in central southern Africa.
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- The Geographical Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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The Kalahari desert contains an impressive suite of landforms, including vegetated dunefields, ancient lake basins, pans (playas), cave features and an extensive network of fossil valleys, which, since the seminal work of Grove (1969), have been suggested to indicate long-term regional climatic change. Much of the work on environmental change has focused upon geomorphological and archaeological evidence from the Late Quaternary and, to a lesser degree, the Holocene. This has enabled the construction of relatively detailed chronologies of environmental change in the Kalahari and for southern Africa as a whole (see Deacon and Lancaster, 1988; Thomas and Shaw, 1991 for ...