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  title info:
    title: Climate change in deserts
    sub title: past, present and future
  name:
    name part: Williams, M. A. J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: History.
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (654 pages)
  abstract: "This book reconstructs climatic changes in deserts and their margins at a variety of scales in space and time. It draws upon evidence from land and sea, including desert dunes, wind-blown dust, river and lake sediments, glacial moraines, plant and animal fossils, isotope geochemistry, speleothems, soils, and prehistoric archaeology. The book summarises the Cenozoic evolution of the major deserts of the Americas, Eurasia, Africa and Australia and the causes of historic floods and droughts. The book then considers the causes and consequences of desertification and proposes four key conditions for achieving ecologically sustainable use of natural resources in arid and semi-arid areas. Climate Change in Deserts is an invaluable reference for researchers and advanced students interested in the climate and geomorphology of deserts: geographers, geologists, ecologists, archaeologists, soil scientists, hydrologists, climatologists and natural resource managers."--
  table of contents: Present-day desert environments -- Cenozoic evolution of deserts -- Adaptations to life in deserts -- Evolution of desert research -- Dating desert landforms and sediments -- Stable isotope geochemistry -- Desert dunes -- Desert dust -- Desert rivers -- Desert lakes -- The pluvial debate -- Desert glaciation -- Speleothems and tufas in arid areas -- Desert soils, paleosols and duricrusts -- Plant and animal fossils in deserts -- Prehistoric occupation of deserts -- African and Arabian deserts -- Asian deserts -- North American deserts -- South American deserts -- Australian deserts -- Historic floods and droughts -- Desertification: causes, consequences, and solutions -- Current climatic trends and possible future changes -- Towards sustainable use of deserts.
  note: Martin Williams, the University of Adelaide.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Paleoclimatology
  subject:
    topic: Arid regions climate
  subject:
    topic: Climatic changes
  subject:
    topic: Deserts
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Earth Sciences
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Earth Sciences
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Arid regions climate
  subject:
    topic: Climatic changes
  subject:
    topic: Deserts
  subject:
    topic: Paleoclimatology
  classification: QC884.5.A73 W55 2014eb
  classification: 551.415
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    title info:
      title: Climate change in deserts
    name:
      name part: Williams, M.A.J., author.
    identifier: (DLC) 2014009755
    identifier: (OCoLC)874901921
  identifier: 9781316072547
  identifier: 1316072541
  identifier: 9781107016910
  identifier: 1107016916
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 140804
    record change date: 20250816223042.0
    record identifier: in00003527236
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng