Climate change in deserts : past, present and future /
"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, speleoth...
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| Language: | English |
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New York City :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
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.