Keywords:
Loess.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (345 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781483289014
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1837708
DDC:
551.37
Language:
English
Note:
Front Cover -- Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- Dedication -- Chapter One. THE GENERAL NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF WINDBORNE DUST -- 1.1 THE NATURE OF AEOLIAN DUST -- 1.2 SOURCES OF DUST -- 1.3 PREVIOUS STUDIES OF AEOLIAN DUST AND DUST DEPOSITS -- Chapter Two. MECHANISMS OF FINE-PARTICLE FORMATION -- 2.1 RELEASE OF PARTICLES FROM FINE-GRAINED PARENT ROCKS -- 2.2 GLACIAL GRINDING -- 2.3 FROST WEATHERING -- 2.4 FLUVIAL COMMINUTION -- 2.5 AEOLIAN ABRASION -- 2.6 SALT WEATHERING -- 2.7 COMBINED SALT AND FROST ACTION -- 2.8 CHEMICAL WEATHERING -- 2.9 INSOLATION WEATHERING -- 2.10 FINE PARTICLES OF BIOLOGICAL ORIGIN -- 2.11 FORMATION OF CLAY PELLETS -- 2.12 THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF DIFFERENT PARTICLE FORMATION MECHANISMS -- Chapter Three. DUST ENTRAINMENT, TRANSPORT AND DEPOSITION -- 3.1 PARTICLE FORCES -- 3.2 PARTICLE ENTRAINMENT -- 3.3 DISPERSION OF DUST DEFLATED FROM THE EARTH'S SURFACE -- 3.4 DISPERSION OF DUST FROM VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS -- 3.5 DUST DEPOSITION -- Chapter Four. DUST SOURCES, SINKS AND RATES OF DEPOSITION -- 4.1 GLOBAL DUST SOURCES -- 4.2 TYPES OF TERRAIN FAVOURABLE FOR DUST DEFLATION -- 4.3 GLOBAL DUST SINKS -- 4.4 DUST CONCENTRATIONS IN THE AIR -- 4.5 ANNUAL FREQUENCY OF MODERN DUST STORMS -- 4.6 RATES OF DUST DEPOSITION ESTIMATED FROM OCEAN CORES -- 4.7 RATES OF CONTINENTAL DUST DEPOSITION -- Chapter Five. DUST-TRANSPORTING WIND SYSTEMS -- 5.1 DUST DEVILS -- 5.2 DOWNDRAUGHT HABOOBS -- 5.3 DUST STORMS ASSOCIATED WITH STEEP PRESSURE GRADIENTS AND LOW-LEVEL TROUGHS -- 5.4 DUST-TRANSPORTING WIND SYSTEMS IN WEST AFRICA -- 5.5 DUST STORMS ASSOCIATED WITH DEPRESSIONS AND COLD FRONTS -- 5.6 LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT OF DUST BY JET STREAMS -- 5.7 TRANSPORT OF DUST OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND CONTINENTAL EUROPE -- 5.8 FOHN AND VALLEY WINDS.
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Chapter Six. GRAIN SIZE, MINERALOGY AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF AEOLIAN DUST -- 6.1 GRAIN SIZE OF SUSPENDED DUST ABOVE A WIND-ERODED SURFACE -- 6.2 GRAIN SIZE OF AEOLIAN DUST TRANSPORTED OVER RELATIVELY SHORT DISTANCES -- 6.3 GRAIN SIZE OF FAR-TRAVELLED DUST -- 6.4 MIXTURES OF LOCAL AND FAR-TRAVELLED DUST -- 6.5 MINERAL COMPOSITION OF DUST -- 6.6 CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF DUST -- 6.7 OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIOS OF QUARTZ IN DUST -- 6.8 MAGNETIC DIFFERENTIATION OF ATMOSPHERIC DUSTS -- Chapter Seven. IMPLICATIONS OF DUST DEFLATION, TRANSPORT AND DEPOSITION -- 7.1 DEFLATION PROBLEMS -- 7.2 PREDICTION OF SOIL EROSION BY WIND -- 7.3 PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRANSPORT OF SAND AND DUST -- 7.4 IMPLICATIONS OF DUST DEPOSITION -- Chapter Eight. DUST DEPOSITION IN THE OCEANS -- 8.1 THE EFFECT OF DUST DEPOSITION ON THE COMPOSITION OF MODERN OCEAN SEDIMENTS -- 8.2 OCEANIC DUST DEPOSITION DURING THE LATE CENOZOIC -- 8.3 RECORD OF QUATERNARY DUST DEPOSITION PRESERVED IN ICE CORES -- Chapter Nine. LOESS -- 9.1 DEFINITION OF LOESS -- 9.2 LOESS DISTRIBUTION -- 9.3 THICKNESS AND MORPHOLOGY OF LOESS DEPOSITS -- 9.4 PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF LOESS -- 9.5 LOESS LANDFORMS -- 9.6 THEORIES OF LOESS ORIGIN -- 9.7 STAGES IN THE FORMATION OF LOESS -- 9.8 QUATERNARY HISTORY OF LOESS DEPOSITION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
