Martin Williams is Adjunct Professor in Earth Sciences at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has worked with archaeologists in the Sahara, Nile Valley and Ethiopia, and has written over two hundred research papers and a dozen books, including Climatic Change in Deserts (Cambridge, 2014), A Land Between Two Niles (with Donald Adamson, 1982) and The Sahara and the Nile (with Hugues Faure, 1980). He received the Farouk El Baz Award for Desert Research from the Geological Society of America in 2008.
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Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Evolution of the Nile Basin 3. Climate and hydrology 4. Geology and soils 5. Vegetation, land use and human impact 6. The Ethiopian Highlands 7. The Ugandan Lake Plateau 8. The Sudd swamps and the White Nile 9. Lake Turkana and overflow into the Sobat 10. The Khor Abu Habl Fan and Kordofan desert dunes 11. The Gezira alluvial fan and Blue Nile palaeochannels 12. The Atbara valley 13. Jebel Marra volcano 14. The desert Nile 15. West of the Nile: the Western Desert of Egypt and the Eastern Sahara: part one 16. West of the Nile: the Western Desert of Egypt and the Eastern Sahara: part two 17. The Fayum 18. The Red Sea Hills 19. The Sinai desert 20. The Nile Delta 21. The Nile Cone 22. Origins of plant and animal domestication in the Nile Basin 23. Epilogue: 'out of Africa' References Index.
Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Evolution of the Nile Basin 3. Climate and hydrology 4. Geology and soils 5. Vegetation, land use and human impact 6. The Ethiopian Highlands 7. The Ugandan Lake Plateau 8. The Sudd swamps and the White Nile 9. Lake Turkana and overflow into the Sobat 10. The Khor Abu Habl Fan and Kordofan desert dunes 11. The Gezira alluvial fan and Blue Nile palaeochannels 12. The Atbara valley 13. Jebel Marra volcano 14. The desert Nile 15. West of the Nile: the Western Desert of Egypt and the Eastern Sahara: part one 16. West of the Nile: the Western Desert of Egypt and the Eastern Sahara: part two 17. The Fayum 18. The Red Sea Hills 19. The Sinai desert 20. The Nile Delta 21. The Nile Cone 22. Origins of plant and animal domestication in the Nile Basin 23. Epilogue: 'out of Africa' References Index.
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