Research Catalog

Title

Desert aeolian processes / edited by Vatche P. Tchakerian.

Publication

London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Tchakerian, Vatche P.

Description

xii, 326 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Deserts
• Eolian processes

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The resurgence of aeolian geomorphology / Vatche P. Tchakerian -- Origin of the Gran Desierto Sand Sea: Sonora, Mexico: evidence from dune morphology and sedimentology / Nicholas Lancaster -- Geomorphic and geochemical evidence for the source of sand in the Algodones Dunes, Colorado Desert, southeastern California / Daniel R. Muhs, Charles A. Bush, Scott S. Cowherd and Shannon Mahan -- Potential transport of windblown sand: influence of surface roughness and assessment with radar data / Ronald Greeley, Dan G. Blumberg, Anthony R. Dobrovolskis, Lisa R. Gaddis, James D. Iverson, Nicholas Lancaster, Keld R. Rasmussen, R. Stephen Saunders, Stephen D. Wall and Bruce R. White -- Sand transport paths in the Mojave Desert, southwestern United States / James R. Zimbelman, Steven H. Williams and Vatche P. Tchakerian -- Field methods in a study of the process-response systems controlling dune morphology, Salton Sea, California / Kevin R. Mulligan.
• Barchan Dunes of the Salton Sea region California / Peter K. Haff, David E. Presti -- Aeolian modifications of glacial morianes at Bishop Creek, eastern California / Andrew J. Bach -- Alterations of ventifact surfaces at the glacier/desert interface / Ronald I. Dorn -- Fine material in rock fractures: aeolian dust or weathering / Niccole Villa, Ronald I. Dorn and James Clark -- Modeling seasonal patterns of blowing dust on the southern High Plains / James M. Gregory, Jeffrey A. Lee, Gregory R. Wilson and Udai B. Singh -- Reversed desertification of sand dunes along the Sinai/Negev border / Haim Tsoar, Victor Goldsmith, Steve Schoenhaus, Keith Clarke and Arnon Karnieli -- A review of the effects of surface moisture content on aeolian sand transport / Steven L. Namikas and Douglas J. Sherman -- Wind abrasion and ventifact formation in California / Julie E. Laity.

ISBN

041204241X (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^95070865^

OCLC

• 33819136
• SCSB-10167166

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library