Deserts belong to the most beautiful landforms on Earth although their potential encroachments may threaten daily lives of many people, in particular those in developing countries. Studies of past ...

Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 56. Proceedings of the 10th International Coastal Symposium ICS 2009, Vol. I (2009), pp. 347-351 (5 pages) The largest dunefields in the Danube delta ...

The Lut Desert, or Dasht-e-Lut, is located in the south-east of the country. Between June and October, this arid subtropical area is swept by strong winds, which transport sediment and cause aeolian ...

Coastal dunes are a ridge, or a series of ridges, that form at the rear of a beach and differ from most other constructional coastal landforms in that they are formed by the movement of air (aeolian ...

Aeolian sand landforms in parts of the Sudan and Nubia : origins and impacts on past and present land use / R. Neil Munro, Mohammed Abdel Mahmoud Ibrahim, Hussien Abuzied and Babiker el-Hassan ...

In the context of phenomena, “aeolian” refers to physical processes and resulting features driven by the action of wind on unconsolidated or loosely consolidated surface materials, primarily sediments ...

Sandy landforms formed by the wind, or aeolian bedforms, are classified by the wavelength–or length–between crests. On Mars, we can observe four classes of bedforms (in order of increasing wavelengths ...