Making loess-sized quartz silt: Data from laboratory simulations and implications for sediment transport pathways and theformation of 'desert' loess deposits associated with the Sahara

Quaternary International

Volumn 76-77, Issue , 2001, Pages 7-19

  Wright, Janet ^a  

^a STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESERT; EOLIAN PROCESS; LABORATORY METHOD; LOESS; QUARTZ; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

AFRICA;

EID: 0035106364     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1040-6182(00)00085-9     Document Type: Article

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