Landscapes and landforms of Botswana / Frank D. Eckardt, editor.
Eckardt, Frank D., editor.
2022
GB440.B55
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Title
Landscapes and landforms of Botswana / Frank D. Eckardt, editor.
ISBN
3030861023 (ebook)
9783030861025 (electronic bk.)
9783030861018 (hardback)
3030861015 (hardback)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86102-5
Published
Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-86102-5 doi
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GB440.B55
Dewey Decimal Classification
551.41096883
Summary
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, Zambezi, Orange, and Okavango with its neighbouring countries. The extensive Kalahari Sand surface has been sculptured by numerous past processes which have produced subtle but regional landforms consisting of extensive dunes and shorelines. Incipient rifting has created the dynamic Okavango and Makgadikgadi fan-basin systems which produces iconic wetlands with a world heritage status. Geological outcrops in particular to the east expose highly denuded basement lithologies which produces numerous inselbergs that are home to a rich archaeological heritage. The book also examines the geomorphology of mineral and water resources which sustain the economy and population and also features dedicated chapters that cover diamondiferous kimberlites, caves, pans, dams, duricrusts and wildlife. Chapter 6 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 27, 2022).
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Eckardt, Frank D., editor.
Series
World geomorphological landscapes.
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Landscapes and landforms of Botswana.
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Introduction to the Landscape and Landforms of Botswana
The Angolan catchments of northern Botswanas 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 in Botswana: 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.

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