Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781857280166 |
| ISBN10: | 1857280164 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 534 pages |
| Size: | 254x203 mm |
| Weight: | 453 g |
| Language: | English |
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Category:
Desert Geomorphology
Edition number: 1
Publisher: CRC Press
Date of Publication: 26 January 1993
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Short description:
Including recent research findings from terrestrial satellite imagery, the study of planetary landscapes, and advances in laboratory work, this also covers the environmental processes involved in desertification and the solution of planning and
Long description:
Including recent research findings from terrestrial satellite imagery, the study of planetary landscapes, and advances in laboratory work, this also covers the environmental processes involved in desertification and the solution of planning and
Table of Contents:
Part 1 Global perspectives: the desert realm; diversity and distinctiveness of deserts; geomorphologists in deserts. Part 2 Desert surface conditions: weathering forms and processes; desert surfaces and soils; surface particle concentrations - stone pavements; volume changes - patterned ground phenomena. Part 3 The fluvial domain in deserts: desert drainage systems; slopes - forms and processes; channels - processes and forms; alluvial fans and their environments; pediments and glacis; base- level plains - playas and sabkhas; models of mountain-plain evolution. Part 4 Wind in desert geomorphology: the role of wind; entrainment by Wind; Grains In Motion; Ripples; Desert Winds; Wind Erosion. Part 5 Aeolian sediments and landforms: aeolian sediments; dune processes; dune classification; size and memory; anchored and stabilized dunes; mobile dunes; aeolian sedimentary structures; sand seas and dune fields; palaeo- aeolian deposits and landforms. Part 6 The evolution of desert landforms - a global perspective: deserts of the world.