Large Submarine Sand Waves: Their orientation and form are influenced by some of the same factors that shape desert sand dunes

Science ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 136 (3519) ◽  
pp. 839-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. F. Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Sand Dunes ◽  
Sand Waves ◽  
Desert Sand

The utility of desert sand dunes as Quaternary chronostratigraphic archives: evidence from the northeast Rub' al Khali

2013 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 303-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carly L. Leighton ◽  
Richard M. Bailey ◽  
David S.G. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Sand Dunes ◽  
Desert Sand

scholarly journals Squeezing a rainfall record out of desert sand dunes

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-25
Author(s):  
Abi Stone
Keyword(s):  
Sand Dunes ◽  
Desert Sand

On the Observation of Desert Sand-Dunes

1908 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaughan Cornish
Keyword(s):  
Sand Dunes ◽  
Desert Sand

Variable vegetation cover and episodic sand movement on longitudinal desert sand dunes

Geomorphology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 81 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 276-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul P. Hesse ◽  
Rebecca L. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Vegetation Cover ◽  
Sand Dunes ◽  
Desert Sand ◽  
Sand Movement

Sand dunes as a major proximal dust source for late Pleistocene loess in the Negev Desert, Israel

2008 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Onn Crouvi ◽  
Rivka Amit ◽  
Yehouda Enzel ◽  
Naomi Porat ◽  
Amir Sandler
Keyword(s):  
Grain Size ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Sand Dunes ◽  
Relative Magnitude ◽  
Negev Desert ◽  
Coarse Silt ◽  
Dust Source ◽  
Desert Sand ◽  
Fine Grain ◽  
Quartz Grains

AbstractGrain size analyses of three hilltop, primary eolian loess sequences in the Negev desert, southern Israel, show a bimodal grain-size distribution at 50–60 μm and 3–8 μm. Using analyses of mineralogy and OSL ages we demonstrate that the coarse mode is composed mostly of quartz grains and its relative magnitude increases regionally with time, suggesting an enhancement of a time-transgressive proximal dust source compared to a distal, Saharan fine-grain dust. The only proximal dust source for large amount of coarse silt quartz grains is the sands that advanced into Sinai and the Negev concurrently with the loess accretion during the late Pleistocene as a result of the exposure of the Mediterranean shelf. We therefore propose that the coarse silt quartz grains were formed through eolian abrasion within the margins of an advancing sand sea. This relationship between desert sand seas as a source for proximal coarse dust and desert margin loess deposits can be applicable to other worldwide deserts such as Northern Africa, China and Australia.

scholarly journals On Desert Sand-Dunes Bordering the Nile Delta

1900 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaughan Cornish
Keyword(s):  
Nile Delta ◽  
Sand Dunes ◽  
Desert Sand
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