Peatlands are a significant component of the global carbon (C) cycle, yet despite their role
as a long-term C sink throughout the Holocene, they are increasingly vulnerable to …

This is a review of the most important work in wildland fire mathematical modelling which
has been carried out at different research centres around the world from the beginning of the …

Controversy exists over the classification of fluvially formed subaerial fans. Authors either
restrict alluvial fans to debris flow dominated types or extend the spectrum to fans dominated …

Wetlands are poorly documented features of many landscapes, and there is often little
understanding of the geomorphological controls on their origin, development and …

ABSTRACT A study of the avulsion of a major distributory channel on the alluvial fan (22 000
km2 in area) of the Okavango River in northern Botswana has revealed that channels serve …

SUMMARY The Okavango Delta is a large, low gradient (ca. 1: 3400), alluvial fan situated in
a graben structure which is an extension of the East African Rift system. The catchment is …

The Okavango Delta of northern Botswana is a large (40,000 km2) alluvial fan located at the
terminus of the Okavango River. The river discharges about 10km3 of water onto the fan …

We establish through 13 excavations the landscape context and nature of hominin activities
across the Zinjanthropus land surface from which the Leakeys recovered the FLK 22 and …

The Okavango Delta is a large wetland system situated in northern Botswana. The
hippopotamus forms an integral part of this dynamic ecosystem, as it exerts a catalytic effect …

The 1800‐km2 Okavango alluvial fan of northern Botswana represents an unusual
depositional setting in which peat‐forming perennial swamps (6000 km2) occur in a region …