Thirty years in the making, this bibliography contains 10,250 titles on the earth sciences of the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Djibouti for the period 1620 to 1993. A full range of geological topics is provided, e.g., petroleum geology, precious metals, sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, tectonics, volcanology, and geophysics. Also provided are such subjects as the early explorations of the Horn, paleoanthropology, paleoenvironments, archeology, limnology, climatology, hydrology, pedology, and topographic maps. An historical summary of earth science explorations of the Horn is included as well as a CD-ROM to be used to search topics in depth. The authors all have intimate knowledge of the Horn and the published (the American Geological Institute) is the premiere publisher of geological bibliographies in the United States.
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About the Senior Editor Jon Kalb is a research fellow in vertebrate paleontology and geology at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1971 his research has concentrated on the Afar Depression, which is bound by the four countries of the Horn.
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