Geomorphological Hazards in Drylands

Arid Zone Geomorphology: Process, Form and Change in Drylands

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 583-598

  Wiggs, Giles F S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aeolian hazards, and active dunefields sand transport corridors in dryland regions; Aeolian hazards blowing sand and active dune movements; Dust Bowl (1930s) in the Great Plains of the United States ideas of land exploitation; Dust Bowl experience, promoting development land conservation strategies in the USA; Dust storms approaching Stratford, Texas, 1935; Fluvial hazards and flash floods in deserts, poorly understood hazards; Geomorphological hazards in drylands; Human activity in drylands failing, to appreciate fast changing spatial and temporal dynamics of aeolian and fluvial processes; Reed checkerboards across moving dune surfaces; Serious geomorphological hazards in drylands human disturbances, of stable land and water surfaces

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CONSERVATION; DUST; STORMS;

AEOLIAN HAZARDS-BLOWING SAND AND ACTIVE DUNE MOVEMENTS; DRY LAND; DUNEFIELDS; DUST STORM; FLASH FLOOD; LAND CONSERVATION;

HAZARDS;

EID: 84886228253     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470710777.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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