Landscapes and Landforms of Botswana
This volume contains 22 chapters introducing a wide range of semi-arid and geologic landscapes. Botswana, a thinly populated nation, the size of France, is a Southern African keystone country at the heart of the Kalahari, sharing some of the major sub-continental drainage basins such as the Limpopo,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | World Geomorphological Landscapes
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the Landscape and Landforms of Botswana
- The Angolan catchments of northern Botswana’s major rivers: the Cubango, Cuito, Cuando and Zambezi rivers
- The Okavango Delta Peatlands
- Landscape evolution of the Lake Ngami and Mababe Depressions within the Okavango Rift Zone, north-central Botswana
- The Makgadikgadi Basin
- Landscapes and landforms of the Chobe Enclave, Northern Botswana
- The Chobe-Zambezi channel-floodplain system: anatomy of a wetland in a dryland
- Dunes of the southern Kalahari
- Dunes of the northern Kalahari
- Kalahari Pans: Quaternary Evolution and Processes of Ephemeral Lakes
- Dry valleys (mekgacha)
- Landscape evolution of the Stampriet Transboundary Basin and relation to the groundwater system
- Calcretes, silcretes and intergrade duricrusts
- Geodiversity of Caves and Rockshelters in Botswana
- Kimberlites, kimberlite exploration, and the geomorphic evolution of Botswana
- Geomorphology and landscapes of the Limpopo River system
- Dams inBotswana: Drying times ahead
- Gorges of eastern Botswana
- Soil Development in the Eastern Hardveld
- The Tsodilo Hills: a multifaceted World Heritage Site
- Geoconservation in Botswana
- Zoogeomorphology of Botswana