Quaternary Deserts and Climatic Change

by A.S. Alsharhan (Editor), K.W. Glennie (Editor), G.L. Whittle (Editor)

Overview

These proceedings record the results of climate change in many areas which are hyper-arid deserts today but which, almost cyclically, at intervals of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, have had a much more humid climate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789054105978
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Pages:	632
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

A.S. Alsharhan (Edited by) , K.W. Glennie (Edited by) , G.L. Whittle (Edited by)

Table of Contents

Quaternary sedimentation and diagenesis; hydrogeology and geochemical applications to quaternary deserts; quaternary analogs to ancient and remote sediments; dunes and inland sabkhas; fluvial and wadi systems; remote sensing and archaeology.

Editorial Reviews

The conference from which these 54 papers were culled had the twin objectives of exchanging and collating information on climatic change within desert regions and to date the timing of past dune and wadi activity in order to understand reasons for change and relative rates of water resource depletion and recharge. Papers discuss: the alterations of wet and dry climatic changes during the past 200,000 years, recent applications of lake and soil calcretes as paleoclimatic indicators, NaCl crystals as paleothermometers, chlorine percentage as a proxy for recharge, luminescence techniques for accurate dating, and the relationship of northern hemisphere glaciation with relative desert aridity. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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