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 …

Deserts, as an unexplored extreme ecosystem, are known to harbor diverse actinobacteria
with biotechnological potential. Both multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens and …

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 …

We present a statistical approach to data mining and quantitatively evaluating detrital age
spectra for sedimentary provenance analyses and palaeogeographic reconstructions …

The source-to-sink fluctuations of Asian aeolian deposits have been investigated over the
past two decades using multiple mineralogical and geochemical tracers. These source …

We here present the first comprehensive provenance study of the Sahara Desert using a
combination of multiple provenance proxies and state-of-the-art statistical analysis. Our …

We here review what is known about the dunefields and fluvial systems of the Kalahari
Basin in terms of geological setting and Quaternary dynamics and set out what has been …

Sediment provenance is a key issue in understanding the aeolian system of the Taklamakan
Desert, an important source of global dust and the largest sand sea in the midlatitudes …

Theories of late Cenozoic climate cooling assume that central Asian aridification and high
dust accumulation rates in the Chinese Loess Plateau and the North Pacific Ocean are …