Field studies of sand patch initiation processes on the northern margin of the Namib Sand Sea

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 947-954

  Lancaster, Nicholas ^a  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acolian processes; Aerodynamic roughness; Namib Desert; Sand patch initiation

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN PROCESSES; DUNE FORMATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

NAMIBIA, NAMIB DESERT;

EID: 0030432189     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199610)21:10<947::AID-ESP634>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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