Dune Formation

Yves Earhart

Traduttore A AI

Casa editrice: Publifye

Sinossi

Dune Formation explores the fascinating world of how wind shapes sand dunes in both deserts and coastal regions. This book delves into the physics of aeolian transport, examining how wind moves sediment, and investigates the environmental factors influencing dune arrangement, or morphology. These factors are critical for geomorphologists and environmental scientists aiming to understand landscape evolution.

 
The book argues that dune morphology directly results from the interplay between wind patterns, sediment supply, and surface conditions. It begins with aeolian transport principles, explaining how wind speed and grain size affect sand movement. From there, it examines different dune types, such as crescentic barchans and linear seifs, detailing the conditions that dictate their appearance and development.

 
The book emphasizes the role of vegetation, moisture, and topography in modifying wind flow and sediment deposition. This unique approach makes Dune Formation a valuable resource for students, researchers, and professionals in geography, geology, and environmental science. By integrating field observations, experiments, and computational models, the book provides a detailed understanding of the complex processes shaping our planet's surface, offering insights into past climates recorded in paleodunes and helping to address current environmental challenges like desertification and coastal erosion.

Disponibile da: 12/02/2025.

Lunghezza di stampa: 67 pagine.

Scienze e tecnologia

Altri libri che potrebbero interessarti

Koala - A Natural History and an...

Danielle Clode

Koalas regularly appeared in Australian biologist Danielle Clode's backyard, but it was only when a bushfire threatened that she truly paid them attention. 
 
 
 
In vivid, descriptive prose, Clode embarks on a delightful and surprising journey through evolutionary biology, natural history, and ecology to understand where these enigmatic animals came from and what their future may hold. She begins her search with the fossils of ancient giant koalas, delving into why the modern koala has become the lone survivor of a once-diverse family of uniquely Australian marsupials. 
 
 
 
Koala investigates the remarkable physiology of these charismatic creatures. Clode explores the complex relationship and unexpected connections between this endearing species and humans. She explains how koalas are simultaneously threatened with extinction in some areas due to disease, climate change, and increasing wildfires, while overpopulating forests in other parts of the country. 
 
 
 
Deeply researched and filled with wonder, Koala is both a tender and inquisitive paean to a species unlike any other and a call to ensure its survival.

Mostra libro

The Sun Engine - The Story of...

Ylia Callan

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
The Sun Engine is a sweeping journey through the story of light, life, and cosmic creation. From the fiery death of ancient stars to the birth of our Sun, this audiobook explores how solar energy has shaped every stage of existence—from the formation of planets to the spark of life on Earth. 
Tracing the Sun’s influence through science, history, and spirituality, the narrative reveals how solar power has fueled ecosystems, inspired myth and religion, ignited industry through fossil fuels, and now returns as a guiding force for modern renewable energy. 
Beyond its physical presence, The Sun Engine ventures into the profound connection between sunlight and human consciousness, while contemplating the Sun’s ultimate fate and its role in the eternal cycle of stars, black holes, and creation. 
A story of cosmic wonder and human destiny, The Sun Engine is both a scientific exploration and a poetic meditation on the central star that sustains us all.

Mostra libro

At the Edge of Mysteries - The...

Shantha Perera

In December 2019 a new virus emerged, one that caused a global pandemic. Millions were infected. In the recesses of their fragile bodies a battle raged: between the immune system and the virus. But what is the immune system? What are its components? How do they work?

Mostra libro

The Dinosaur's Descendants

Mark Ellsberry

DR. STEVEN ANDREWS is an assistant professor of paleontology at Montana State University when he is recruited for a top-secret National Security Agency job—a mission so secret that not even the President of the United States is aware of it.

Mostra libro

Chronic Pain Reset - 30 Days of...

PsyD Afton L. Hassett, Barbara...

Build a plan to reclaim your life with this easy-to-follow program designed by a leading pain expert. 
 
 
 
This indispensable guide explores the key role that your brain plays in processing pain and how small, simple actions can make profound changes in how you experience chronic pain. Chronic Pain Reset will help you evaluate your pain and its triggers, offering straightforward and often fun strategies to improve it. Using the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy, you'll try one new evidence-based strategy each day for thirty days, from paced breathing and healthy sleep hacks to mindful walking and acts of kindness. The accessible strategies require as little as fifteen minutes a day and apply to all fitness levels. Step-by-step instructions guide you with humor and compassion to make learning and practicing the strategies more engaging. The ones that work best and that you like most will go into your Thriving Plan, a personalized pain-management tool kit that you design to help you lead a life with less pain, greater purpose, and more joy.

Mostra libro

Against the Odds - Women...

John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin

Even in the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is still harder for women to make a career in science than men. Two centuries ago, however, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when science as we know it was just getting started, the situation was far worse. Then, the very notion of a female scientist would have been regarded as something of an oxymoron.



From bestselling and award-winning science writers John and Mary Gribbin, Against the Odds highlights the achievements of women who overcame hurdles and achieved scientific success (although not always as much as they deserved) in spite of male prejudice, as society changed over about 150 years, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.


There is Eunice Newton Foote, who discovered the carbon dioxide greenhouse effect; Chien-Shiung Wu, who discovered the law which allows matter to exist in the Universe today; and Barbara McClintock, who discovered how genes turn on and off.


With a foreword from astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, this book is not only a cautionary tale about the stifling effects of prejudice against women in science, but is a celebration of those who achieved success against the odds - and an inspiration for the next generation.

Mostra libro