This volume offers comprehensive and up-to-date information on research in many different disciplines which give an overall insight into the environmental history of Africa.
Forword
Preface
Obituary
The rise of angiosperms as seen in the African Cretaceous pollen record
p. 3
Albian-Cenomanian microfloral assemblages from coastal Tanzania
p. 31
Palynology and micropalaeontology of the Messianian-Zanclean sequences offshore Equatorial Guinea
p. 45
Marine-terrestrial interaction of climate changes in West Equatorial Africa of the last 190,000 years
p. 61
Holocene vegetation changes in the Sahelian Zone of NE Nigeria: The detection of anthropogenic activity
p. 85
Late Quaternary pollen record from Lake Elmenteita, Kenya
p. 103
A re-evaluation of the late glacial and early-Holocene vegetation history of the Lake Victoria region, East Africa
p. 115
Preliminary pollen record from the deep waters of Lake Victoria (East Africa)
p. 137
Typologie de la vegetation actuelle avec essai d'interpretation des variations environmentales a Marula (Naivasha, Kenya)
p. 147
Biogeographic re-appraisal of the Chenopodiaceae of Mediterranean drylands: A quantitative outline of their general ecological significance in the Holocene
p. 161
Morphology and functional aspects of pollen in the Sarcolaenaceae
p. 191
Pollen grain ultrastructure of two African species of the subtribe Tragiinae (Euphorbiaceae)
p. 201
Taxonomic significance of pollen apertures in some African Boraginaceae
p. 207
External morphology in species of Carduus L. (Asteraceae-Cardueae)
p. 219
Pollen morphology of the African Burseraceae and related genera
p. 225
Volume changes in alder pollen during dormancy
p. 243
Experimental investigation of pollen grains of Welwitschia mirabilis Hook
p. 249
Book reviews
p. 253
List of authors
p. 259
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