Eolian Sediments and Processes (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Eolian Sediments and Processes 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 8
Preface 6
Introduction 12
Chapter 1. Eolian Sand Bodies of the World 12
Chapter 2. On the Skewness of Some Eolian Sands from Saudi Arabia 38
Chapter 3. Textural and Structural Characteristics of Some Experimentally Formed Eolian Strata 52
Chapter 4. Loess Material and Loess Deposits: Formation, Distribution and Consequences 62
Chapter 5. Oriqin and Characteristics of Some Chinese loess at Two locations in China 80
Chapter 6. Clay Minerals in Thin Loess, Ohio River Basin, U.S.A. 102
Chapter 7. Saltation Threshold and Deposition Rate Modeling 114
Chapter 8. Nature of the Saltating Population in Wind Tunnel Experiments with Heterogenceous Size-Density Sands 126
Chapter 9. Velocities of Windblown Particles in Saltation : Preliminary Laboratory and Field Measurements 144
Chapter 10. Eolian Shape-Sorting and Aerodynamic Traction Equivalence in the Coastal Dunes of Hout Bay, Republic of South Africa 160
Chapter 11. Dune Sediment Type, Sand Colour, Sediment Provenance and Hydrology in the Strzelecki-Simpson Dunefield, Australia 176
Chapter 12. Early Post-Depositional Modification of Aeolian Dune Sands 208
Chapter 13. Eolian Features Shaped by Aerodynamic and Vorticity Processes 234
Chapter 14. Wind Tunnel Modelling of Echo and Climbing Dunes 258
Chapter 15. Controls of Dune Morphology in the Namib Sand Sea 272
Chapter 16. The Flow in the Planetary Boundary Layer 302
Chapter 17. Radiative and Meteorological Control on the Movement of Sand at Lake Mungo, New South Wales, Australia 322
Chapter 18. Morphodynamics of incipient foredunes in New South Wales, Australia 336
Chapter 19. Desert Dunes: A Short Review of Needs in Desert Dune Research and a Recent Study of Micro-Meteorological Dune-Initiation Mechanisms 354
Chapter 20. Sand Seas of the Sahara and Sahel: An Explanation of their Thickness and Sand Dune Type by the Sand Budget Principle 364
Chapter 21. Modern Eolian Deposits of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia 376
Chapter 22. The Dynamic Holocene Dune Fields of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain Basins, U.S.A. 390
Chapter 23. Reconstructing Bedform Assemblages from Compound Cross-Bedding 418
Chapter 24. Interpreting Cyclic Crossbedding, with an Example from the Navajo Sandstone 440
Chapter 25. Periglacial Eolian Evenly Laminated Sandy Deposits In the Late Pleistocene of N.W. Europe, A Facie Unrecorded in Modern Sedimentological Handbooks 466
Chapter 26. Bigbear ERG: A Proterozoic Intermontane Eolian Sand Sea in the Hornby Bay Group, Northwest Territories , Canada 494
Chapter 27. Lower Permian Rotliegend Desert Sedimentation in the North Sea Area 532
Chapter 28. Longitudinal Draa in the Permian Yellow Sands of North-East England 554
Chapter 29. Permian Shoreline Eolian Complex in Central Arizona: Dune Changes in Response to Cyclic Sea-Level Changes 562
Chapter 30. Aeolian Sands Terminating an Evolution of Fluvial Deposition Environment in Middle Buntsandstein (Lower Triassic) of the Eifel, Federal Republic Germany 594
Chapter 31. Processes and Controls on the Intertonguing of the Kayenta and Navajo Formations, Northern Arizona: Eolian-Fluvial Interactions 624
Chapter 32. Changing Wind and Hydrologic Regimes During Deposition of the Navajo and Aztec Sandstones, Jurassic (?), Southwestern United States 646