scholarly journals Unlocking the Kimberley’s past: the applicability of organic spring deposits for reconstructing late Quaternary climatic and environmental change

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Field
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Climatic And Environmental Change

Late Quaternary glacial-interglacial cycle of climatic and environmental change on Mount Kenya, Kenya

1999 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.O. Olago ◽  
F.A. Street-Perrott ◽  
R.A. Perrott ◽  
M. Ivanovich ◽  
D.D. Harkness
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Climatic And Environmental Change

PRELIMINARY CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY OF CAVE DEPOSITS IN THE PANTANAL WETLANDS (BRAZIL): INSIGHTS INTO LATE QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael M. McGlue ◽  
◽  
Valdir Felipe Novello ◽  
Francisco W. Cruz ◽  
Rudney de Almeida Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Cave Deposits

The land enriches the soul: On climatic and environmental change, affect, and emotional health and well-being in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, Canada

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 14-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox ◽  
Sherilee L. Harper ◽  
Victoria L. Edge ◽  
Karen Landman ◽  
Karen Houle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Climatic And Environmental Change ◽  
Health And Well Being

scholarly journals The Ecology of Fencing

Africa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Sheridan
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
Climatic And Environmental Change

In the autumn of 2004, a remarkable gathering of 102 scholars took place at St Antony's College, Oxford: they had come for an interdisciplinary symposium on ‘Trees, rain, and politics in Africa: the dynamics and politics of climatic and environmental change’. Symposium papers were grouped into panels that focused on either particular resources (such as trees and water) or particular aspects of social relationships (such as politics and discourses). This format resulted in a series of dialogues between the natural science and social science paradigms, and this first half of the present issue of Africa takes as its theme just one of those interdisciplinary conversations. Taken together, these authors demonstrate how the hybridization of natural science and social science can benefit understandings of the African past, interpretations of the African present and planning for the African future.1

Elemental proxy evidence for late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental change in southern African sedimentary records: interpretation and applications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Humphries
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Rainfall Variability ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Summer Rainfall ◽  
Geochemical Data ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Cape Coast

Abstract Sediments are the most important source of Late Quaternary palaeoclimate information in southern Africa, but have been little studied from a geochemical perspective. However, recent advances in analytical techniques that allow rapid and near-continuous elemental records to be obtained from sedimentary sequences has resulted in the increasing use of elemental indicators for reconstructing climate. This paper explores the diverse information that can be acquired from the inorganic component of sediments and reviews some of the progress that has been made over the last two decades in interpreting the climatic history of southern Africa using elemental records. Despite the general scarcity of elemental records, excellent examples from the region exist, which provide some of the longest and most highly resolved sequences of environmental change currently available. Records from Tswaing crater and marine deposits on the southern KwaZulu-Natal coastline have provided rare glimpses into hydroclimate variability over the last 200 000 years, suggesting that summer rainfall in the region responded predominantly to insolation forcing on glacial-interglacial timescales. Over shorter timescales, lakes and wetlands found in the Wilderness embayment on the southern Cape coast and along the Maputaland coast in north-eastern South Africa have yielded highly-resolved elemental records of Holocene environmental change, providing insight into the changing interactions between tropical (e.g., El Niño-Southern Oscillation) and temperate (e.g., mid-latitude westerlies) climate systems affecting rainfall variability in the region. The examples discussed demonstrate the multiple environmental processes that can be inferred from elemental proxies and the unique insight this can provide in advancing our understanding of past climate change on different timescales. The interpretation of geochemical data can be complicated by the complex nature of sedimentary environments, various proxy assumptions and analytical challenges, and the reliability of sediment-based climate reconstructions is substantially enhanced through multi-proxy approaches.

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