TY  - JOUR
A1  - Thiemeyer, Heinrich
T1  - From Megachad to Microchad - environmental changes during the Holocene
T2  - Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268
N2  - The investigations carried out within the project in NE-Nigeria since 1989 have been focussing on the late Pleistocene and Holocene landscape development of the south eastern Chad basin. Areas of interest include palaeodune fields, clay plains and former beach ridge systems of Lake Chad. Transgressions and regressions of Lake Chad played an important role in the younger landscape history of NE-Nigeria and have also caused great environmental changes. The term „Megachad“ is well known and describes an enormous lake with an extension comparable with the Caspian Sea of today. The term „Microchad“ stands for the other recent extreme in terms of the lake dimensions varying during the times. Environmental changes in the surroundings of Lake Chad are closely connected with transgressions and regressions of the lake. These lake level changes can be climatically induced as well as non-climatically, due to human impact. Nearly all land units have more or less been influenced by the lake, spatially as well as temporally. It is important, though, to notice the scales of the changes. Some changes took place in a millennial scale, some in the scales of centuries or decades, and at least – as can be observed every year – in a seasonal scale.
T3  - Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268 - 14, 011 
Y1  - 2000
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1775
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-36271
VL  - 14
SP  - 11
EP  - 18
PB  - SFB 268
CY  - Frankfurt, M.
ER  -