DESERT GEOMORPHOLOGY SEE PB ED

ISBN-13: 9781857280166 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 534 str.

Ronald U. Cooke;Andrew Warren;Andrew S. Goudie

Opis

Based on sixty years of research in all the desert areas of the world, this is intended to be the definitive text on the geomorphology of deserts. Fully informed by the most recent research findings from terrestrial satellite imagery, the study of planetary landscapes, and advances in laboratory work, the book also contributes significantly to understanding environmental processes involved in desertification and to the solution of planning and engineering problems in arid environments. A greatly expanded and totally revised successor to Geomorphology in Deserts (Cooke & Warren 1970), the book is comprehensive in scope, profusely illustrated and complete with a bibliography of over 2000 entries.

Spis treści

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.