Great warm deserts of the world : landscapes and evolution /

Great warm deserts of the world : landscapes and evolution /

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Author / Creator:Goudie, Andrew.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description:xxii, 444 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Geomorphological landscapes of the world ; 1
Subject:
Deserts.
Geomorphology.
Deserts.
Geomorphology.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4781052
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ISBN:0199245150
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-437) and index.

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505 0 0 |g 1.  |t Desert Diversity --  |t Climate and Process --  |t Controls of Desert Climates --  |t The Diversity of Desert Landscapes --  |t Climate Change --  |g 2.  |t The Deserts of North America --  |t The Sonoran Desert --  |t The Chihuahuan Desert --  |t The Mojave Desert --  |t The Great Basin --  |t The Colorado Plateau --  |t Greater American Deserts --  |t The Colorado Cliffs --  |t Pediments --  |t Alluvial Fans --  |t Great Pluvial Lakes --  |t Badlands --  |t Arroyos --  |t The Dust Bowl and Modern Dust Storms --  |t Pans of the Plains --  |t Drainage Alignment --  |t Dunes --  |g 3.  |t The Deserts of South America --  |t The Andes --  |t The Age of the Atacama --  |t Palaeolakes and Pluvials --  |t Aeolian Landforms --  |t Nitrates and Other Salts --  |t Wind Action in the Altiplano --  |t Patagonia and the Pampas --  |g 4.  |t The Sahara --  |t Long-term Tectonic and Geologic Setting --  |t Wind Erosion --  |t Saharan Dust and Loess --  |t Dunes --  |t Climatic Change --  |t The Chotts --  |t The Inland Delta of the Niger --  |t The Chad Basin --  |g 5.  |t The Libyan Desert --  |t The Nile --  |t Holocene Lake Basins and Rivers --  |t Tufas --  |t The Great Depressions --  |t Yardangs --  |t The Gilf Kebir and the Selima Sand Sheet --  |t Dunes --  |t Postscript: The Horn of Africa --  |g 6.  |t The Namib --  |t The Impact of Early Cretaceous Tectonics --  |t The Great Escarpment --  |t The Onset of Aridity and an Ancient Namib --  |t The Namib Sand Sea --  |t Quaternary Climatic Change --  |t Gypsum Crusts and Salt Weathering --  |t The Rivers --  |g 7.  |t The Kalahari and the Southern African Interior --  |t Geological Background --  |t Pans --  |t Calcrete --  |t Silcretes --  |t Dry Valleys (mekgacha) --  |t Lake Palaeo-Makgadikgadi --  |t The Okavango Swamps --  |t Etosha --  |t The Kalahari Dunes --  |g 8.  |t The Middle East --  |t The Arabian Plate --  |t The Red Sea Basin --  |t Sinai --  |t The Dead Sea --  |t The Walls of Rum --  |t Run-off and Erosion in the Negev --  |t The Arabian (Persian) Gulf Basin --  |t Sabkhas - Coastal and Inland --  |t Salt Structures --  |t Dust Storms, Dust Deposits, and Wind Erosion --  |t Arabian Sands --  |t Climate Change and Humid Landforms --  |g 9.  |t The Deserts of India and Pakistan --  |t The Indus --  |t The Arid Valleys of the High Mountains --  |t The Mountains to the West of the Indus --  |t Lost Rivers of the Desert --  |t Kutch and the Ranns --  |t The Aravallis --  |t The Lakes of Rajasthan --  |t Dust Storms --  |t Dunes --  |t The Extent of the Fossil Sand Features of Mega-Thar --  |t Miliolite Deposits --  |g 10.  |t The Desert of Central Asia and China --  |t The Deserts of the Former Soviet Union --  |t The Caspian, the Aral, and Other Depressions --  |t Loess and Dust --  |t The Sand Deserts --  |t The Drylands of China, Tibet, and Mongolia --  |t The Taklamakan --  |t The Tibetan Plateau --  |t Other Deserts --  |t Loess --  |t Dust Storms and Deflation --  |t Precipitation and Vegetation Change in the Late Quaternary --  |g 11.  |t Australia --  |t Physiographic Types --  |t Dust Storms and Deposits --  |t Dunes --  |t Lunettes --  |t Pans --  |t Lake Eyre and its basin --  |t Anabranching Rivers --  |t Ayers Rock and the Olgas --  |t Stony Deserts --  |t Gilgai and Other Patterned Ground --  |t Duricrusts --  |t Two Limestone Landscapes: The Nullarbor Plain and the Kimberleys --  |t Late Pleistocene Climate Changes --  |g 12.  |t Conclusions --  |t The Importance of Plate Tectonic Setting --  |t The Antiquity of Deserts --  |t Pleistocene Accentuation of Aridity --  |t Environmental Fluctuations Within the Pleistocene --  |t The Frequency of Climatic Change --  |t The Climatological Context of Change --  |t The Present and the Future. 
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