Probable origin of laterally coalesced nabkas and adjacent bare lanes at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, USA

Arid Land Research and Management

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 241-255

  West, Neil E ^a   Johnson, Douglas A ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Utah Army National Guard   (United States)

Author keywords

Banding; Bedforms; Biogeomorphical features; Patterned ground; Stripes

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; DESERT; PATTERNED GROUND;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

LANES;

EID: 21744436172     PISSN: 15324982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15324980590951397     Document Type: Article

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