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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.

Table of Contents:
Introduction to the Landscape and Landforms of Botswana.- The Angolan catchments of northern Botswana’s 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 inBotswana: 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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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783030861049
  • Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • ISBN-10: 303086104X
  • Publisher Date: 19 May 2023
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 403
  • Width: 210 mm


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