It is more than half a century since the publication of RA Bagnold's classic book The physics
of blown sand and desert dunes, and it is a tribute to the quality of Bagnold's work that many …

The forensic potential of geological and soil evidence has been recognized for more than a
century, but recently these types of evidence are used much more widely as an investigative …

The complex transport and depositional processes associated with tsunamis and storms and
the peculiarities of local inundation present questions associated with the recognition and …

The Shenhu area is the key target area for marine gas hydrate industrialization in China.
Significant progress has been made with respect to gas hydrate exploration and production …

Samples of Middle Devonian (Eifelian age; 387–380 Ma) indurated and non‐cemented
sandstone were compared with Pleistocene basal tills in Estonia and Latvia to test a …

There is currently a renewed interest in loess genesis and occurrence in Italy. Well-known
loess profiles in northern Italy have been re-examined, and previously unknown loess …

As sand moves across Earth's landscapes, the shapes of individual grains evolve, and
microscopic textures accumulate on their surfaces. Because transport processes vary …

Quartz is easily the most common mineral on the Earth [1]. It is particularly resistant to
mechanical breakdown during the erosion of rocks and the subsequent movement of …

Saprolite remnants from different palaeosurfaces in southern Sweden have been analysed
by XRD and SEM analyses. They represent two clearly different types. The first is a clay-and …

Grain shape is used less frequently in identifying the origin of sediments than grain size
distributions and/or surface microtextures because of technological limitations. In addition …