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...