Deserts: Geology and Resources

by A. S. (Alta Sharon) Walker

EN·~1 hours·11 chapters

Chapters

11 total

What Is a Desert?

2:16

How the Atmosphere Influences Aridity

4:23

Where Deserts Form

1:12

Types of Deserts

7:58

Desert Features

5:59

Eolian Processes

7:34

Types of Dunes

4:45

Remote Sensing of Arid Lands

5:44

Mineral Resources in Deserts

4:03

Desertification

12:16

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Duration

~1 hours (57K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2014-10-14

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47108

Subjects

Deserts -- Research Desertification -- Research Hazardous geographic environments -- Research GB

About the author

A. S. (Alta Sharon) Walker

b. 1942

A geologist and science writer, she brought readers into deserts, lunar samples, and planetary landscapes with a rare mix of field knowledge and curiosity. Her work connects Earth science with space exploration in a way that still feels vivid and approachable.

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