Eolian Sediments and Processes (Developments in Sedimentology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444422331 ISBN 13: 9780444422330

Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd, 1983

Synopsis

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. Contents: - Introduction: - 1. Eolian Sand Bodies of the World; - The Sediment: - 2. On the Skewness of Some Eolian Sands from Saudi Arabia; 3. Textural and Structural Characteristics of Some Experimentally Formed Eolian Strata; 4. Loess Material and Loess Deposits: Formation, Distribution and Consequences; 5. Origin and Characteristics of Some Chinese Loess at Two locations in China; 6. Clay Minerals in Thin Loess, Ohio River Basin, U.S.A.; - Processes: - 7. Saltation Threshold and Deposition Rate Modeling; 8. Nature of the Saltating Population in Wind Tunnel Experiments with Heterogenceous Size-Density Sands; 9. Velocities of Windblown Particles in Saltation: Preliminary Laboratory and Field Measurements; 10. Eolian Shape-Sorting and Aerodynamic Traction Equivalence in the Coastal Dunes of Hout Bay, Republic of South Africa; 11. Dune Sediment Type, Sand Colour, Sediment Provenance and Hydrology in the Strzelecki-Simpson Dunefield, Australia; 12. Early Post-Depositional Modification of Aeolian Dune Sands; - Recent Eolian: - 13. Eolian Features Shaped by Aerodynamic and Vorticity Processes; 14. Wind Tunnel Modelling of Echo and Climbing Dunes; 15. Controls of Dune Morphology in the Namib Sand Sea; 16. The Flow in the Planetary Boundary Layer; 17. Radiative and Meteorological Control on the Movement of Sand at Lake Mungo, New South Wales, Australia; 18. Morphodynamics of incipient foredunes in New South Wales, Australia; 19. Desert Dunes: A Short Review of Needs in Desert Dune Research and a Recent Study of Micro-Meteorological Dune-Initiation Mechanisms; 20. Sand Seas of the Sahara & Sahel: An Explanation of their Thickness and Sand Dune Type by the Sand Budget Principle; 21. Modern Eolian Deposits of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia; 22. The Dynamic Holocene Dune Fields of the Great...

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444422331
• ISBN 13: 9780444422330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 660
• Editor: Ahlbrandt T. S., Brookfield Michael E.