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...

Dunes is the first book in over a decade to incorporate the latest research in this active and fast-developing field. It discusses the shapes, sizes, patterns, distribution, history and care of wind-blown dunes, and covers all aspects of dunes, terrestrial and in the Solar System.

• The only book to cover all dunes, terrestrial and in the Solar System, in deserts, on coasts, and in the past
• Represents the most current update on the research of dunes for over a decade
• Incorporates the latest research to come out of China where the field is most rapidly...

Dunes is the first book in over a decade to incorporate the latest research in this active and fast-developing field. It discusses the shapes, sizes, patterns, distribution, history and care of wind-blown dunes, and covers all aspects of dunes, terrestrial and in the Solar System.

• The only book to cover all dunes, terrestrial and in the Solar System, in deserts, on coasts, and in the past
• Represents the most current update on the research of dunes for over a decade
• Incorporates the latest research to come out of China where the field is most rapidly...