Aeolian Environments, Sediments and Landforms

1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-471-98573-0
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 677 g

Die äolische Geomorphologie beschäftigt sich mit der Formung der Landschaften durch Wind. Alle beteiligten Prozesse, von der Bodenerosion über Sanddünen bis hin zur Lößbildung, werden in diesem Band beschrieben. Den Hauptteil des Buches machen instruktiv ausgewählte Fallstudien aus; das letzte Kapitel gibt einen Ausblick auf zukünftige technologische, methodische und organisatorische Entwicklungen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goudie, Andrew S

Livingstone, Ian

Stokes, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Physische Geographie und Topographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Trockengebiete und Wüsten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The History of Desert Dune Studies over the Last 100 Years (A. Goudie).

Recent Investigations of Airflow and Sediment Transport Over Desert Dunes (W. Nickling & C. Neuman).

Geomorphology of Desert Sand Seas (N. Lancaster).

Coastal Dune Dynamics: Problems and Prospects (B. Bauer & D. Sherman).

Coastal and Continental Dune Management into the Twenty-first Century (D. Thomas).

Physics of Aeolian Movement Emphasising Changing of the Aerodynamic Roughness Height by Saltating Grains (the Owen Effect) (D. Gillette).

Wind Erosion of Agricultural Land (J. Leys).

Wind Erosional Landforms: Yardangs and Pans (A. Goudie).

Dust Transport and Deposition (G. McTainsh).

Loess (K. Pye & D. Sherwin).

The Aeolian Rock Record (G. Kocurek).

Dune Palaeoenvironments (V. Tchakerian).

Luminescence Dating of Aeolian and Coastal Sand and Silt Deposits: Applications and Implications (A. Singhvi & A. Wintle).

Conclusions (S. Stokes).

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Emeritus Professor Andrew Shaw Goudie (born Cheltenham, 21 August 1945) is a geographer at the University of Oxford specialising in desert geomorphology, dust storms, weathering, and climatic change in the tropics. He is also known for his teaching and best-selling textbooks on human impacts on the environment. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of forty-one books (many of which have appeared in numerous editions) and more than two hundred papers published in learned journals. He combines research and some teaching with administrative roles.