Titlebook: Nile Waters, Saharan Sands; Adventures of a Geom Martin Williams Book 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 Saharan lands

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Petra and Wadi Rum, Jordan (1975),oise Gasse and discover the use of diatoms to reconstruct past changes in lake water temperature, depth and salinity. I plan the outline of a contributed volume on the Sahara and the Nile, which I later edit with Professor Hugues Faure Director of the Quaternary Geology laboratory and Professor of G

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Algeria and Tunisia (1979),, two world authorities on the Sahara. Monod writes a foreword for .. Fieldwork in 1979 among gypsum dunes south of the Aurès Mountains with Mohamed Ben Azzouz of the University of Constantine, Algeria. A tense encounter with some Algerian former partisans. Fieldwork in Tunisia 1979 with a team led

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Son and Belan Valleys, India (1980, 1982, 2005),California, Berkeley) to work in the Son and Belan Valleys, north-central India, in 1980 and 1982. On the afternoon of February 5, 1980, geology Honours student Keith Royce and I discover volcanic ash in a cliff section on the left bank of the Son River. This was the first Quaternary ash ever found

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Afar Hominids, Ethiopia (1981), extinct animals dating back to over four million years in age.We excavate Early Stone Age sites and possible butchery sites.Tim White identifies cut marks on the Bodo skull indicative of deliberate defleshing. This skull is about 0.5?million years old and transitional between . and archaic Homo. We

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Rajasthan, India (1983),rehistoric sites in this now semi-arid region. We excavate a deep step trench to a depth of 18.3?m and recover stone tools dating back to the very late Lower Palaeolithic. Later optical dating by Professor Ashok Singhvi indicates that the base of the trench is close to two hundred thousand years old

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Somalia (1988),1988. The Somali government plan to build a dam just north of Bardera on the Jubba River in order to generate hydro-electric power for the capital Mogadishu. The Jubba rises in the Ethiopian uplands and flows south through western Somalia to the Indian Ocean. It is the only perennial river in Somali

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Inner Mongolia, China (1999),rganisation on interactions between climate and desertification, as a prelude to the final drafting of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. Our revised and updated report was published as a book in 1996 (M.A.J. Williams and R. J. Balling, Jr., Interactions of Desertification and

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,Flinders Ranges, South Australia: Solving the Puzzle (1993–2007),essor of the Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies. Soon after arriving in Adelaide, Dr Michael Atchia, who was responsible for environmental education at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) HQ in Nairobi and I set up a one semester UNEP-University of Adelaide graduate certifi

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,Kenya (1999–2003),nya Rift. Our aim was to investigate the transition from Middle to Late Stone Age at a number of sites in this remote and beautiful area. During four field seasons (1999–2003) we achieved this aim, working closely with the local Maasai people. The stone tools and fossil bones that we excavated are s