Sticky dunes in a wet desert: Formation, stabilisation and modification of the Australian desert dunefields

Geomorphology

Volumn 134, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 309-325

  Hesse, Paul ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aeolian; Australia; Geomorphology; Quaternary; Sand dunes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DESERT; DUNE FIELD; DUNE FORMATION; FORMATION MECHANISM; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PALEOSOL; QUATERNARY; WIND EROSION; WIND PROFILE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 80053051366     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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