Desert Sediments: Ancient and Modern (Geological Society Special Publication) - Hardcover

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Select Contents: FLUVIAL SEDIMENTS Process and Form (Vertical Exchange of Coarse Bedload in Desert Streams; Fluviatile Deposits/Morphology of Alluvial Surfaces as Indicators of Quaternary Environmental Changes, Southern Negev Israel; Plio-Pleistocene Raised Channel Systems, Western Sharqiya/Wahiba Oman), Tectonism, Climatic Change and Fluviatile Desert Sediments (Tectonic Control of Desert Sediments in Rift Basins; Ancient Ephemeral Stream Deposits: A Local Terminal Fan Model From the Bunter Sandstone Formation L. Triassic in the Tonder-3, -4 and -5 Wells, Denmark; Alluvial Fan Dissection: Relationships Between Morphology-Sedimentation; Quaternary Landforms, Sediments, Depositional Environments and Gastropod Isotope Ratios of Adrar Bous, Tenere Desert of Niger South-Central Sahara); AEOLIAN SEDIMENTS Dust Dynamics and Deposits (Aeolian Abrasion of Quartz Particles and Production of Silt-size Fragments; Mechanics/Geological Implications of Dust Transport and Deposition in Deserts With Particular Reference to Loess Formation and Dune Sand Diagenesis, Northern Negev Israel; Rates/Modes of Dust Accretion and Deposition in an Arid Region, Negev Israel; Wind-Blown Materials and W African Soils: Explanation of the Ferrallitic Soil Over Loose Sandy Sediments Profile), Dune Dynamics and Deposits (Continental Sabkha Pans and Associated Nebkhas, Southern Kuwait Arabian Gulf; Dune Networks; Complex Star Dunes and Associated Aeolian Bedforms, Hopeman Sandstone Permo-triassic, Moray Firth Basin Scotland; Late Palaeozoic Cold-Climate Aeolianites, Southern Cooper Basin South Australia; Aeolian Sedimentation From the Galtymore Formation Devonian Ireland), Grain Size, Process and Dune Environment (Statistical Analysis of Mixed Grain Size Distributions From Aeolian Sands in the Libyan Pre-Desert Using Log Skew Laplace Models; Grain-Size Variation on a Complex Linear Dune, Namib Desert); CHEMICAL SEDIMENTS; REMOTE SENSING OF DESERT SEDIMENTS

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