Download or read book Holocene Palaeoenvironmental History of the Central Sahara written by Roland Baumhauer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-02-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental setting within the Central Sahara was subject to considerable changes during Late Quaternary, mainly driven by major global climate variations, although human impact increased constantly since Early Holocene.Such global events can be reconstructed with the help of reliefs, sediments and palaeosoils and their specific morphological