Ephemeral river systems at the Skeleton Coast, NW-Namibia - Sedimentological and geomorphological studies on the braided river dominated Koigab Fan, the Cenozoic succession in the Uniabmond area and comparative studies on fluvio-aeolian interaction between ephemeral rivers and the Skeleton Coast Erg
The Skeleton Coast forms part of the Atlantic coastline of NW Namibia comprising several ephemeral rivers, which flow west-southwest towards the Atlantic Ocean. The area is hyper-arid with less than 50 mm average annual rainfall and a rainfall variability of 72%. Therefore, the major catchment areas...
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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
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2003
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Online Access: | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/512 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-6013 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-6013 https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/files/512/Krapf-Diss.pdf |