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The fine mineral material formed from the erosion of rock fragments and deposited by rivers and lakes. Its particles are the intermediate form between sand and clay. The particles can range in size from 0.01-0.05 mm in diameter. (Source: WRIGHT)

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Kinahan J, Pallett J, Vogel J, Ward J, Lindeque M 1991. The occurrence and dating of elephant tracks in the silt deposits of the lower !Khuiseb River, Namibia. Cimbebasia 13 37-43

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Hatutale A 1994. Investigation into the Surface Water Resources of the Okavango Region with special reference to the Okavango River.

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Investigation into the Surface Water Resources of the Okavango Region with Special Reference to the Okavango River.pdf	17.57 MB

Heine K 2004. Flood Reconstructions in the Namib Desert, Namibia and Little Ice Age Climatic Implications: Evidence from Slackwater Deposits and Desert Soil Sequences. Journal Geological Society of India 64 535-547

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Sandelowsky BH, Scholz H, Ahlert K 1976. Ancient tracks near Tsondab vlei. Madoqua 9 (3) 57-58

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Medinski TV, Mills AJ, Esler KJ, Schmiedel U, Jürgens N 2010. Do soil properties constrain species richness? Insights from boundary line analysis across several biomes in south western Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 74 (9) 1052-1060

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196310000844

Kastanja MM, Diekmann B, Henrich R 2006. Controls on carbonate and terrigenous deposition in the incipient Benguela upwelling system during the middle to the late Miocene (ODP Sites 1085 and 1087). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 241 (3-4) 515-530

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003101820600280X

The Homeb silts in the Namib Desert. Planetary Science Institute.

Website link:http://www.psi.edu/about/staff/mbourke/bourkeprojects/Homeb1.html

Bourke MC, Child A, Stokes S 2003. Optical age estimates for hyper-arid fluvial deposits at Homeb, Namibia. Quaternary Science Reviews 22 (10-13) 1099-1103

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379103000854

Ward JD 1987. The Cenozoic succession in the Kuiseb Valley, central Namib Desert.

Website link:http://www.iucat.iu.edu/catalog/93163

Smith RMH, Mason TR, Ward JD 1993. Flash-flood sediments and ichnofacies of the Late Pleistocene Homeb Silts, Kuiseb River, Namibia. Sedimentary Geology 85 (1-4) 579-599

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/003707389390103C

Heine K Chapter 3: Climate reconstructions based on fluvial deposits in hyper-arid desert Environments in. African Palaeoenvironments and Geomorphic Landscape Evolution, Palaeoecology of Africa 30

Website link:http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/abs/10.1201/b10542-4

Srivastava P, Brook GA, Marais E, Morthekai P, Singhvi AK 2006. Depositional environment and OSL chronology of the Homeb silt deposits, Kuiseb River, Namibia. Quaternary Research 65 (3) 478-491

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033589406000123

Heine K, Heine JT 2002. A paleohydrologic reinterpretation of the Homeb Silts, Kuiseb River, central Namib Desert (Namibia) and paleoclimatic implications. Catena 48 (1-2) 107-130

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0341816202000127

Eitel B, Blümel WD, Hüser K, Mauz B 2001. Dust and loessic alluvial deposits in Northwestern Namibia (Damaraland, Kaokoveld): Sedimentology and palaeoclimatic evidence based on luminescence data. Quaternary International 76 - 77

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618200000896

Leopold M, Völkel J, Heine K 2006. A ground-penetrating radar survey of late Holocene fluvial sediments in NW Namibian river valleys: characterization and comparison. Journal of the Geological Society 163 923-936

Website link:http://jgs.lyellcollection.org/content/163/6/923.abstract

Bridgens AB 1976. International co-operation in Southern Africa with special reference to SARCCUS and the Okavango Delta. Proceedings of the Symposium on the Okavango Delta and its future utilization

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Clark N, Roberts K 1999. Conductivity and turbidity measurements at the Oponono Pans. Water Environment Division, DWA Field trip 13 - 15/4/1999 in conjunction with NNEP, MET.

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Eitel B, Kadereit A, Blümel WD, Hüser K, Kromer B 2005. The Amspoort Silts, northern Namib desert (Namibia): formation, age and palaeoclimatic evidence of river-end deposits. Geomorphology 64 299-314

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The Amspoort Silts.pdf	1.24 MB

Marker ME, Müller D 1978. Relict vlei silts of the middle Kuiseb river valley South West Africa. Madoqua 2 151-162

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Relict vlei silts of the middle Kuiseb river valley South West Africa.pdf	1.64 MB

Eitel B, Kadereit A, Blümel WD, Hüser K, Lomax J, Hilgers A 2006. Environmental changes at the eastern Namib Desert margin before and after the Last Glacial Maximum: New evidence from fluvial deposits in the upper Hoanib River catchment, northwestern Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 234 201-222

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Environmental changes Hoanib River_2006.pdf	1.3 MB

Jacobson PJ, Jacobson KM, Angermeier PL, Cherry DS 2000. Hydrologic influences on soil properties along ephemeral rivers in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 45 (1) 21-34

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Hydrologic influences on soil properties along ephemeral rivers in the Namib Desert.pdf	106.26 KB