Linking African Palaeoenvironments and Modern Environments: PAGES Workshop

This special issue emerged from a PAGES supported workshop - the Pan-Africa PAGES workshop on African palaeoperspectives: Linking the past to the present and the future, 19–20 July 2004, Nairobi, Kenya.

> The Pan-Africa PAGES workshop on African palaeoperspectives: Linking the past to the present and the future, 19–20 July 2004, Nairobi, Kenya [p.1]
Olago D & Odada E

> Early Paleogene climate and productivity of the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic, off the western coast of Ghana [p.3]
Arkaah AB, Kaminski M, Ogle N, Kalin RM, Atta-Petters D, Apaalse L, Wiafe G & Armah AK

> Effect of improper water and land resource utilization on the central Main Ethiopian Rift lakes [p.8]
Legesse D & Ayenew T

> Land–sea linkages during deglaciation: High-resolution records from the eastern Atlantic off the coast of Namibia and Angola (ODP site 1078) [p.19]
Dupont L & Behling H

> Late Quaternary palynology in marine sediments: A synthesis of the understanding of pollen distribution patterns in the NW African setting [p.29]
Hooghiemstra H, Lézine A-M, Leroy SAG, Dupont L & Marret F

> An analysis of long-term rainfall variability, trends and groundwater availability in the Mulunguzi river catchment area, Zomba mountain, Southern Malawi [p.45]
Ngongondo CS

> Use of the geochemical and biological sedimentary record in establishing palaeo-environments and climate change in the Lake Ngami basin, NW Botswana [p.51]
Huntsman-Mapila P, Ringrose S, Mackay AW, Downey WS, Modisi M, Coetzee SH, Tiercelin J-J, Kampunzu AB & Vanderpost C

> Late Quaternary palaeoceanographic record in giant piston cores off South Africa, possibly including evidence of neotectonism [p.65]
Rau A, Rogers J & Chen M-T

> Taphonomy of phytoliths and macroplants in different soils from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) and the application to Plio-Pleistocene palaeoanthropological samples [p.78]
Albert RM, Bamford MK & Cabanes D

> Plio–Pleistocene macroplant fossil remains and phytoliths from Lowermost Bed II in the eastern palaeolake margin of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania [p.95]
Bamford MK, Albert RM & Cabanes D

> Correlation of widespread Holocene and Pleistocene tephra layers from Newberry Volcano, Oregon, USA, using glass compositions and numerical analysis [p.113]
Kuehn SC & Foit FF

> Chronology of a probable neotectonic Pleistocene rock avalanche, Cordon del Plata (Central Andes), Mendoza, Argentina [p.138]
Moreiras SM

> Thermal (TL) and optical stimulated luminescence (OSL) techniques for dating Quaternary colluvial volcaniclastic sediments: An example from the Crati Basin (Northern Calabria) [p.149]
Carobene L, Cirrincione R, Rosa RD, Gueli AM, Marino S & Troja S