The dynamism of salt crust patterns on playas

Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 31-34

  Nield, Joanna M ^a   Bryant, Robert G ^b   Wiggs, Giles F S ^c   King, James ^c   Thomas, David S G ^c,d,e   Eckardt, Frank D ^d   Washington, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST;

AERODYNAMIC ROUGHNESS; ARID ENVIRONMENTS; DUST ENTRAINMENT; ENERGY BALANCE MODELS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; WATER AND HEAT FLUXES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRUST; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPORATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT FLUX; PLAYA; SALT;

BOTSWANA; MAKGADIKGADI;

EID: 84920426208     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G36175.1     Document Type: Article

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