Arabian Deserts Nature, Origin, and Evolution /
H. Stewart Edgell is a graduate of the University of Sydney with his doctorate in geology from Stanford University. He has spent most of his working life in the Middle East, especially in Arabia, where he has been active in oil exploration, and primarily in university teaching and research as a Prof...
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Dordrecht :
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Definitions of deserts
- Types of deserts and landform regions of Arabia
- Geological setting of Arabian deserts
- Influences of climate
- Ecology of Arabian deserts
- Watercourses and rivers of Arabia
- Arabian sand seas
- Lesser dunefields of Arabia
- Types of desert dunes in Arabia
- Sources of sand for Arabian sand dune deserts
- Mechanisms of sand accumulation
- Sedimentology of Arabian dune sands
- Desert dust and loess
- Stony and rocky deserts of Arabia
- Deserts of interior drainage basins
- Coastal deserts of Arabia
- Desert plains, steppes, and plateaux
- Mountain deserts of Arabia
- Dating methods as applied to Arabian deserts and deposits
- Evolution of Arabian deserts and their chronology.
