Eolian Sediments and Processes
Published on 14. May 2014
671 pages
978-0-08-086952-0 (ISBN)
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Papers cover the entire spectrum of eolian investigations, ranging from the microscopic level to regional synthesis as well as ancient eolian deposits and their interpretation.
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English
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
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978-0-08-086952-0 (9780080869520)
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M. E. Brookfield | T.S. Ahlbrandt
Eolian Sediments and Processes
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Content
- Front Cover
- Eolian Sediments and Processes
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Eolian Sand Bodies of the World
- Chapter 2. On the Skewness of Some Eolian Sands from Saudi Arabia
- Chapter 3. Textural and Structural Characteristics of Some Experimentally Formed Eolian Strata
- Chapter 4. Loess Material and Loess Deposits: Formation, Distribution and Consequences
- Chapter 5. Oriqin and Characteristics of Some Chinese loess at Two locations in China
- Chapter 6. Clay Minerals in Thin Loess, Ohio River Basin, U.S.A.
- Chapter 7. Saltation Threshold and Deposition Rate Modeling
- Chapter 8. Nature of the Saltating Population in Wind Tunnel Experiments with Heterogenceous Size-Density Sands
- Chapter 9. Velocities of Windblown Particles in Saltation : Preliminary Laboratory and Field Measurements
- Chapter 10. Eolian Shape-Sorting and Aerodynamic Traction Equivalence in the Coastal Dunes of Hout Bay, Republic of South Africa
- Chapter 11. Dune Sediment Type, Sand Colour, Sediment Provenance and Hydrology in the Strzelecki-Simpson Dunefield, Australia
- Chapter 12. Early Post-Depositional Modification of Aeolian Dune Sands
- Chapter 13. Eolian Features Shaped by Aerodynamic and Vorticity Processes
- Chapter 14. Wind Tunnel Modelling of Echo and Climbing Dunes
- Chapter 15. Controls of Dune Morphology in the Namib Sand Sea
- Chapter 16. The Flow in the Planetary Boundary Layer
- Chapter 17. Radiative and Meteorological Control on the Movement of Sand at Lake Mungo, New South Wales, Australia
- Chapter 18. Morphodynamics of incipient foredunes in New South Wales, Australia
- Chapter 19. Desert Dunes: A Short Review of Needs in Desert Dune Research and a Recent Study of Micro-Meteorological Dune-Initiation Mechanisms
- Chapter 20. Sand Seas of the Sahara and Sahel: An Explanation of their Thickness and Sand Dune Type by the Sand Budget Principle
- Chapter 21. Modern Eolian Deposits of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia
- Chapter 22. The Dynamic Holocene Dune Fields of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain Basins, U.S.A.
- Chapter 23. Reconstructing Bedform Assemblages from Compound Cross-Bedding
- Chapter 24. Interpreting Cyclic Crossbedding, with an Example from the Navajo Sandstone
- Chapter 25. Periglacial Eolian Evenly Laminated Sandy Deposits In the Late Pleistocene of N.W. Europe, A Facie Unrecorded in Modern Sedimentological Handbooks
- Chapter 26. Bigbear ERG: A Proterozoic Intermontane Eolian Sand Sea in the Hornby Bay Group, Northwest Territories , Canada
- Chapter 27. Lower Permian Rotliegend Desert Sedimentation in the North Sea Area
- Chapter 28. Longitudinal Draa in the Permian Yellow Sands of North-East England
- Chapter 29. Permian Shoreline Eolian Complex in Central Arizona: Dune Changes in Response to Cyclic Sea-Level Changes
- Chapter 30. Aeolian Sands Terminating an Evolution of Fluvial Deposition Environment in Middle Buntsandstein (Lower Triassic) of the Eifel, Federal Republic Germany
- Chapter 31. Processes and Controls on the Intertonguing of the Kayenta and Navajo Formations, Northern Arizona: Eolian-Fluvial Interactions
- Chapter 32. Changing Wind and Hydrologic Regimes During Deposition of the Navajo and Aztec Sandstones, Jurassic (?), Southwestern United States
