This book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology and adopts a
strong evolutionary focus. As with other titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis …

The engraved trails of rocks on the nearly flat, dry mud surface of Racetrack Playa, Death
Valley National Park, have excited speculation about the movement mechanism since the …

Desert playas, such as those in northern Utah, form a landscape often in stark contrast to
surrounding mountain ranges due to their minimal topographic relief, lack of vegetation, and …

This paper sheds light on the hydrodynamic conditions of transport and sedimentary effects
of wind‐induced water currents produced during strong windstorms in low gradient systems …

This paper is a proposal to develop inquiry-based learning (IBL) as a methodological
approach to learn science. I outline the characteristics of this methodology, which is based …

We correlate the gravity aspects (descriptors), namely the strike angles, derived from a
recent gravity field model, with the known oil, gas and groundwater deposits/reservoirs and …

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Trails in the usually-hard mud of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park attest to the
seemingly-improbable movement of massive rocks on an exceptionally flat surface. The …

Abstract We have inspected Racetrack Playa at Death Valley over the last 7 years and have
not observed major episodes of rock movement and trail generation. We compare this null …

In July 2013, a unique type of movement was noted of cattle (Bos taurus) bones across the
surface of Smith Creek Valley Playa, in central Nevada. Portions of 3 skeletal elements and …