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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The property Lut Desert is in the southeast of the Islamic Republic of Iran (hereinafter referred to as Iran) and straddles the three Iranian Provinces of Kermān, Sistāno Balūchestān and Khorāsān-e ...

LIMA (Reuters) -Paleontologists in Peru unveiled on Wednesday the fossilized skeleton of an ancient, dolphin-like creature estimated to be between 8 and 12 million years old. The remains were ...