Desert Crusts and Rock Coatings

Arid Zone Geomorphology: Process, Form and Change in Drylands

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 131-180

  Nash, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abandoned sodium nitrate workings in Atacama Desert; Desert crusts and rock coatings; Desert crusts, and rock coatings value, as palaeoenvironmental indicators; Desert crusts, with variable geomorphological influence; Geomorphological classification of silcrete; Gypsum crust formation via pedogenic and nonpedogenic pathways; Halite (NaCl) deposits, in sabkhas or in basins of ephemeral lakes; Majority of desert crusts products of specific arid zone hydrological or pedological processes; Micromorphological classification of silcrete; Stages in morphogenetic sequence of carbonate deposition during calcrete formation

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; COATINGS; ROCK PRODUCTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM DEPOSITS; SODIUM NITRATE;

ARID ZONES; ATACAMA DESERT; CARBONATE DEPOSITION; DESERT CRUSTS, WITH VARIABLE GEOMORPHOLOGICAL INFLUENCE; GYPSUM CRUSTS; PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS; ROCK COATINGS; SILCRETES;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84861493666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470710777.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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