Africa's Top Geological Sites
Africa's Top Geological Sites uncovers 44 African landscapes and phenomena, with countless colour photographs, explanatory diagrams and maps.
Africa boasts some of the most interesting and spectacular geological features on our planet, many of them unknown and rarely seen by travellers. This book, Africa's Top Geological Sites, uncovers 44 diverse landscapes and phenomena, which are fully described with the support of colour photographs and explanatory diagrams and maps. Authored by a range of geologists and specialists in the field, Africa's Top Geological Sites provides fascinating insight into the geological and geomorphological origins of, among others, the Great Escarpment of southern Africa and its vast inland plateau; the Great Rift Valley system, mountainous regions of the Sahara, great inland deltas, the Cape mountain fold belt, offshore islands, meteor craters, near-legendary minerals and the setting of hominid development on the continent. Palaeontological, archaeological, historical and ecological information is included. Richard Viljoen, Morris Viljoen and Carl Anhaeusser, all Professors of Geology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, have overseen and edited submissions from more than 40 contributors to this volume.
Verlag:
Medienart:
Bücher
Sprache:
Englisch
EAN:
9781775844488
Seiten:
336
Erscheinungsjahr:
2016
Kontinent: Afrika
Kategorien: Geologie und Mineralogie