Late Quaternary lake-level fluctuations in the Mababe Depression: Middle Kalahari palaeolakes and the role of Zambezi inflows

SL Burrough, DSG Thomas - Quaternary Research, 2008 - cambridge.org
A systematic drilling and optical dating programme on Middle Kalahari beach ridge (relict
shoreline) sediments has enabled the identification of multiple episodes of lake high stands …

Multiphase quaternary highstands at lake Ngami, Kalahari, northern Botswana

SL Burrough, DSG Thomas, PA Shaw… - Palaeogeography …, 2007 - Elsevier
Large lake basins, now almost entirely devoid of water in the Kalahari's semi arid
environment, can be clearly identified from Landsat imagery of northern Botswana. These …

Mega-Lake in the Kalahari: a Late Pleistocene record of the Palaeolake Makgadikgadi system

SL Burrough, DSG Thomas, RM Bailey - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
A distinct series of beach ridges marking the former shorelines of large inter-connected
lacustrine basins in the Kalahari can be clearly identified from Landsat imagery and Shuttle …

Holocene fluctuations of Lake Ngami, Middle Kalahari: chronology and responses to climatic change

PA Shaw, MD Bateman, DSG Thomas, F Davies - Quaternary International, 2003 - Elsevier
Lake Ngami, a 3000km2 basin at the distal end of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, has a
complex suite of shorelines ranging from the lake sump at 919m asl up to 945m asl, linked to …

Late Quaternary landforms and environmental change in northwest Botswana: the evidence of Lake Ngami and the Mababe Depression

P Shaw - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1985 - JSTOR
Lake Ngami and the Mababe Depression contain series of concentric shoreline features
controlled by volume: area thresholds in the Okavango Delta region. Of particular interest …

Paleolimnological features of a mega-lake phase in the Makgadikgadi Basin (Kalahari, Botswana) during Marine Isotope Stage 5 inferred from diatoms

M Schmidt, M Fuchs, ACG Henderson, A Kossler… - Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Makgadikgadi–Okavango–Zambezi basin (MOZB) is a structural depression in
the south-western branch of the East African Rift System of the northern and middle …

Archaeological evidence for the reassessment of the ages of the Makgadikgadi paleolakes

P McFarlane, Margaret J.* & Segadika - Botswana Notes & Records, 2001 - journals.co.za
Earlier studies of palaeo-lake strandlines of the Makgadikgadi area are briefly summarised.
North ofGweta the cutting of a palaeolake floor, attributed to the 945m level (palaeo-Lake …

Mogapelwa: archaeology, palaeoenvironment and oral traditions at Lake Ngami, Botswana

LH Robbins, AC Campbell, ML Murphy… - South African …, 2009 - search.informit.org
The Lake Ngami Basin is important for understanding the LSArecord during the Holocene in
theKalahari. We provide anOSLand radiocarbon dated sequence that relates changing lake …

Dynamics of a Kalahari long-lived mega-lake system: hydromorphological and limnological changes in the Makgadikgadi Basin (Botswana) during the terminal 50 ka

F Riedel, ACG Henderson, KU Heußner, G Kaufmann… - Hydrobiologia, 2014 - Springer
The Kalahari features a long-lived lacustrine system which may exist since the Early
Pleistocene. The emergence of an extant cichlid fish radiation from this (palaeo-) lake during …

After the flood: the fluvio-lacustrine landforms of northern Botswana

P Shaw - Earth-Science Reviews, 1988 - Elsevier
Abstract The Middle Kalahari of northern Botswana contains three palaeolake basins, with
shorelands enclosing an area of 60,000 km 2, linked to the Okavango Delta and the …