Petrographic classifications of sand and sandstone proposed more than half a century ago
are still in use, although they were formulated at a time when depositional and post …

Determining the “best age” of individual grains from Usingle bond Pb detrital zircon analyses
remains problematic, with the current system generally relying on an arbitrary cut-off age for …

This paper introduces provenance, a software package within the statistical programming
environment R, which aims to facilitate the visualisation and interpretation of large amounts …

This revised and updated edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the
subject, exploring the world's landforms from a broad systems perspective. It covers the …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 GEOMORPHOLOGY OF DESERT DUNES Sand dunes cover up to a
quarter of many desert regions. Determining the factors that determine their shape, size and …

We often resort to mythical thinking in the face of natural phenomena that we hardly
understand. Sedimentary petrology has several long-standing myths. One is that sediments …

传统的重矿物分析是碎屑沉积物物源示踪的基本方法, 具有费用便宜, 物源信息全面等优点,
还可以为单矿物物源示踪提供重要的背景信息, 具有无可替代的作用. 近年来 …

Based on four decades of research by Professor Andrew Goudie, this volume provides a
state-of-the-art synthesis of our understanding of desert geomorphology. It presents a truly …

Sediment in coastal N amibia to southern Angola is supplied dominantly from the Orange
River with minor additional fluvial input and negligible modifications by chemical processes …

Sedimentary provenance studies increasingly apply multiple chemical, mineralogical and
isotopic proxies to many samples. The resulting datasets are often so large (containing …