Book contents
- Climatic Change in Deserts
- Climate Change in Deserts
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Climatic change in deserts: An introduction
- 2 Present-day desert environments
- 3 Cenozoic evolution of deserts
- 4 Adaptations to life in deserts
- 5 Evolution of desert research
- 6 Dating desert landforms and sediments
- 7 Stable isotope analysis and trace element geochemistry
- 8 Desert dunes
- 9 Desert dust
- 10 Desert rivers
- 11 Desert lakes
- 12 The pluvial debate
- 13 Desert glaciations
- 14 Speleothems and tufas in arid areas
- 15 Desert soils, paleosols and duricrusts
- 16 Plant and animal fossils in deserts
- 17 Prehistoric occupation of deserts
- 18 African and Arabian deserts
- 19 Asian deserts
- 20 North American deserts
- 21 South American deserts
- 22 Australian deserts
- 23 Historic floods and droughts
- 24 Desertification: causes, consequences and solutions
- 25 Current climatic trends in deserts and possible future changes
- 26 Towards sustainable use of deserts
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Cenozoic evolution of deserts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Climatic Change in Deserts
- Climate Change in Deserts
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Climatic change in deserts: An introduction
- 2 Present-day desert environments
- 3 Cenozoic evolution of deserts
- 4 Adaptations to life in deserts
- 5 Evolution of desert research
- 6 Dating desert landforms and sediments
- 7 Stable isotope analysis and trace element geochemistry
- 8 Desert dunes
- 9 Desert dust
- 10 Desert rivers
- 11 Desert lakes
- 12 The pluvial debate
- 13 Desert glaciations
- 14 Speleothems and tufas in arid areas
- 15 Desert soils, paleosols and duricrusts
- 16 Plant and animal fossils in deserts
- 17 Prehistoric occupation of deserts
- 18 African and Arabian deserts
- 19 Asian deserts
- 20 North American deserts
- 21 South American deserts
- 22 Australian deserts
- 23 Historic floods and droughts
- 24 Desertification: causes, consequences and solutions
- 25 Current climatic trends in deserts and possible future changes
- 26 Towards sustainable use of deserts
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Climate Change in DesertsPast, Present and Future, pp. 22 - 36Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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