Depending on the amount of aeolian sediment input and dune erosion, dune size and morphology change over time. Since coastal foredunes play an important role in the Dutch coastal defence, it is important to have good insight in the main factors that control these changes. In this paper the temporal variations in foredune erosion and accretion were studied in relation to proxies for aeolian tran...

the result of wind dynamic (capacity and potential) is transport of soil or sediment particles and subsequent formative desert landforms based on the severity of erosion or sedimentation. the khartouran region, because of its geology, geomorphology and climatology conditions is a special place in the arid region on the closed basin of dasht-e-kavir. it is evident that the ecosystem balance of t...

Luminescence dating has truly transformed the science of deserts and drylands and has necessitated a revision of conventional interpretation of sedimentary records and stratigraphic correlations. This contribution discusses key questions in palaeoclimatology of global deserts, the meaning of a luminescence age on desert sand and presents a review of luminescence-dated aeolian sand records from ...

In the process of analyzing aerial photographs to obtain information on the engineering characteristics of soils, the first and perhaps the most important step is to identify the landform. The landform may consist of hills, valleys, plains, terraces, beaches, dunes, and other topo­ graphic features largely created by the forces of erosion. The im­ portance of the landform lies in its relation t...

Aeolian processes are tightly linked to soil and vegetation change in arid and semi-arid systems at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Wind influences patterns of vegetation and soil within the landscape, and these patterns control wind erosion at patch to landscape scales. Aggregated at larger scales, patterns in soil and vegetation distributions influence global distributions of dust and i...

Large-scale aeolian erosion features such as pans usually develop upon a relatively homogeneous erodible sedimentary rock substratum and show simple concave morphologies. However, some erosional depressions in semi-arid to arid settings more complex geological contexts, associating basins outcrops of non-erodible basement. In basins, the geomorphic evolution is controlled by interplay between p...

Introduction: A precursory glance at MGS images of the surface of Mars show an abundance of aeolian transverse ridges [1]. These ridges are located in a variety of geological terrains. Zimbelman and Wi lson [2] have separated the small-scale aeolian features of Syrtis Major into six categories: ripples associated with obstacles, ripple bands, ripple fields, ripple patches, isolated ripple patch...