Late Cenozoic Environments and Hominid Evolution: A Tribute to the Late Bill BishopPeter Andrews, Peter Banham "Part 3. Quaternary Environments, with particular emphases on the English Midlands, western Scotland and southern Africa."--BOOK JACKET. "Throughout this commemorative volume, the determination of editors and authors to place the results of specialist research into their environmental context is perhaps the clearest indication of the visionary influence of Bill Bishop."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
Early Miocene of Uganda | 5 |
PILBEAM D Renewed research in the Ugandan Early Miocene | 27 |
Middle Miocene to Pleistocene of the Tugen Hills Kenya | 39 |
sedimentary structures at | 59 |
issues | 69 |
WOOD B PlioPleistocene hominins from the Baringo Region Kenya | 101 |
Quaternary environments | 157 |
implications | 169 |
HART J K The impact of the deforming bed model on the reconstruction of British | 183 |
P The palaeoclimatic and biostratigraphic significance of herpetofaunal | 201 |
WELLS J M MIGHALL T M SMITH D E DAWSON A G Brighouse Bay | 217 |
E The peatlands of northwest Scotland as Holocene palaeoclimatic archives | 235 |
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Common terms and phrases
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