Permanently marked vegetation transects in Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA were monitored to follow temporal dynamics of desert grassland communities on a variety of landforms and soil types over a ...

The Lut Desert, or Dasht-e-Lut, is located in the south-east of the country. Between June and October, this arid subtropical area is swept by strong winds, which transport sediment and cause aeolian ...

Deserts belong to the most beautiful landforms on Earth although their potential encroachments may threaten daily lives of many people, in particular those in developing countries. Studies of past ...

A multidisciplinary group of sixteen scientists visited the southwestern desert of Egypt to verify interpretations of Earth-orbital photographs. The two-week journey started at Kharga Oasis and ...

Climatic change in deserts : an introduction -- Present-day desert environments -- Cenozoic evolution of deserts -- Adaptations to life in deserts -- Evolution of desert research -- Dating desert ...

You might remember learning about landforms in science class. From beaches to mountains and archipelagos to dunes, the Earth's surface has many unique environments and terrains. Among these landscapes ...

El-Baz, Farouk and Wolfe, R. W. 1982. Wind Patterns in the Western Desert. CR-3611. NASA Scientific and Technical Information Branch. In Desert Landforms of Southwest Egypt: A Basis for Comparison ...

Steven L. Forman, Ph.D., professor of geosciences and director of the Geoluminescence Dating Research Laboratory at Baylor University, received the international Farouk El-Baz Award for Desert ...

Wadi Rum Protected Area (WRPA) is located in the southern part of Jordan close to the border with Saudi Arabia, around 290 km south of Amman and 60 km northeast of the coastal city of Aqaba. The total ...