Mechanisms of dust emission from Pleistocene loess deposits, Nebraska, USA

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1460-1471

  Sweeney, Mark R ^a   Mason, Joseph A ^b  

^a University of South Dakota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; ENTRAINMENT; FRICTION; LOESS; PLEISTOCENE; SALTATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SILT; WEATHERING RATE; WIND EROSION; WIND VELOCITY;

NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

PEORIA;

EID: 84887830139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrf.20101     Document Type: Article

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