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Jeffrey Allman Gritzner
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LOCATION: Missoula, MT, United States

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Professor of Geography; Director, Montana Public Policy Research Institute, University of Montana, Missoula. Author of The West African Sahel: Human Agency and Environmental Change and others.

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The Niger and Sénégal river basins and the Lake Chad basin and their drainage networks
Lake Chad, freshwater lake located in the Sahelian zone of west-central Africa at the conjunction of Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger. It is situated in an interior basin formerly occupied by a much larger ancient sea that is sometimes called Mega-Chad. Historically, Lake Chad has ranked among…
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