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2014
Reconstructing climatic changes in deserts and their margins at a variety of scales in space and time, this book draws upon evidence from land and sea, including desert dunes, wind-blown dust, river and lake sediments, glacial moraines, plant and animal fossils, isotope geochemistry, speleothems, soils, and prehistoric archaeology.
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Reconstructing climatic changes in deserts and their margins at a variety of scales in space and time, this book draws upon evidence from land and sea, including desert dunes, wind-blown dust, river and lake sediments, glacial moraines, plant and animal fossils, isotope geochemistry, speleothems, soils, and prehistoric archaeology.
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2009
Deserts are superb repositories of geological, geomorphic and archaeological evidence. The very aridity to which they owe their existence has enabled them to preserve a remarkably good record of past depositional and erosional events. The fossil river valleys of the Sahara, the great salt lakes of Australia, China, and Patagonia, the dissected volcanic
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Deserts are superb repositories of geological, geomorphic and archaeological evidence. The very aridity to which they owe their existence has enabled them to preserve a remarkably good record of past depositional and erosional events. The fossil river valleys of the Sahara, the great salt lakes of Australia, China, and Patagonia, the dissected volcanic
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Vernacular climate control in desert architecture
Energy and Buildings, 1991Abstract Architects today have at their disposal a rich variety of mechanical means to control the climatic environment in buildings they design. Consequently, it has become a common tendency to rely entirely on engineers and their equipment to achieve comfortable climatic conditions in building spaces.
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Climate of the Sonoran Desert Region
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1949(1949). Climate of the Sonoran Desert Region. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 143-187.
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Genetic structure and climatic correlates of desert landsnails
Oecologia, 1981Allozymic variation in proteins encoded by 20 loci was analyzed electrophoretically in 126 adult specimens representing 4 populations and 2 species of the desert landsnail Trochoidea, subgenus Xerocrassa, in a variable desert climatic back-ground of temperature and water factors.
Eviatar, Nevo +3 more
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Impacts of Soil Climate on Desert Scrubs Distribution in the Mojave Desert
Arid Land Research and Management, 2013Based on the mean annual soil temperature collected with the Pallmann method and data on evaporation, precipitation, and the perennial plant species in 75 monitoring sites in the Mojave Desert from 1982 to 2000, we investigated the interrelationships of soil temperature and aridity on the distribution of several dominant desert scrubs in the Mojave ...
Yanying Bai +2 more
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Climatic change: Desert-forming processes
1981Several different hypotheses exist in which atmospheric dust is identified as having a dominant role in desert-forming processes. The theory of Bryson and Baerreis for the Rajasthan Desert of northwest India—where increased atmospheric dust was postulated to be responsible for enhanced infrared radiative divergence of the upper air that accelerated ...
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Solar Energy Generation in Desert Climates
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019Masen and the World Bank have framed the Noor solar energy facilities to be a necessity because of (renewable) energy demand, fossil fuel depletion and global environmental impact. This paper investigates the Noor Ouarzazate solar power projects on their local social costs & benefits and sustainability implications of transnational socio-economic and ...
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Subterranean Penetration by a Desert Climate
Geological Magazine, 1926The subject matter of the present note is furnished by the abnormal redness of many parts of the Arran Carboniferous. W. Gunn, in his invaluable memoir, records this colouration without particular comment; but, as Scottish geologists are aware, B. N.
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Productivity of Desert and Mediterranean-Climate Plants
1983Mediterranean-climate and desert ecosystems are prominent on all continents at latitudes between approximately 15° and 30° (Brown 1968; McGinnies 1969; Mooney 1977a). Mediterranean-climate systems generally occur at these latitudes on the western or southwestern edges of the continent, whereas towards the more equatorial latitudes and also to the ...
J. Ehleringer, H. A. Mooney
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