Desert geomorphology /
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| Author / Creator: | Cooke, Ronald U. |
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| Imprint: | London : UCL Press, 1993. |
| Description: | viii, 526 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1477113 |
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