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From its historical kingdoms to the autonomous post-colonial states that make up the sector at the present time, western Africa has reworked dramatically over the centuries. Economically profitable for ecu slave investors and later for his or her colonial successors, the territories alongside Africa’s Atlantic coast have been pressured to beat nice adversity earlier than attaining autonomy. This quantity surveys the historical past of the numerous international locations of western Africa the place vestiges of its celebrated prior are nonetheless obvious in towns like Timbuktu and the place its various peoples proceed to navigate a direction in the direction of a extra strong destiny.
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ETHIOPIA Mapping of Pleistocene glacial morphology in High Semyen in December 1973 (Hastenrath, 1974) gave the opportunity for observation of subnival soil forms. Weak remnants of needle ice were found at lowest elevations around 3700 m. Turf exfoliation and micro vegetation terracettes occur upward of about 3750 m, and can be found up to more than 4350 m. This indicates the preferred altitudinal domain of these soil frost forms. Stone stripes, fine material polygons and bands, and cake polygons, are the most conspicuous form types upward of 4250 m.
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2 :8. Incipient mud polygon formations on moist soil at about 4170 m along Chogoria route, East side of Mount Kenya. Pocket knife as scale is 9 em long. , June 1973). 2 :9. Fine earth mounds, 4700 m, Mount Kenya. Box as scale has diameter of 7 em. , July 1971). cover during the season of abundant precipitation through January, which is later ablated or buried by scree. From January to March a distinct material sorting is observed, with nearly one-m-wide bands of coarse rock fragments . It is believed that change of frost may playa role -in the sorting process.