A study of global sand seas

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the current status of the measurement of geologic time as stored in the stratigraphic record, and present some arguments regarding present pitfalls and future potential regarding the measurement and interpretation of geological time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present comprehensive measurements from three new field sites and three published studies, showing that characteristic saltation layer heights, and thus particle speeds, remain approximately constant with shear velocity.

TL;DR: In this paper , the formation and development of blowouts is an important surface indication of sand drift activity in the Hulun Buir sandy grassland and the main cause of landscape pattern heterogeneity.

TL;DR: In this paper, a bar on the Brazos River near Calvert, Texas, has been analyzed in order to determine the geologic meaning of certain grain size parameters and to study the behavior of the size fractions with transport.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed mapping of the sedimentary geology of Saudi Arabia by the Arabian-American Oil Co. (Aramco) began in 1933, and by 1959, exploration parties of one type or another had surveyed more than 1.3 million square kilometers (500,000 square miles).

TL;DR: In this article, the third moment (skewness) of a normal curve is used to distinguish between dune, beach, and river sand, and the difference between the two types of sand types can be numerically stated by computing the third moments of the distribution curve.