A study of global sand seas

TL;DR: In this article, an extensive review of the physics of wind-blown sand and dust on Earth and Mars is presented, including a review of aeolian saltation, the formation and development of sand dunes and ripples, dust aerosol emission, weather phenomena that trigger dust storms, and the lifting of dust by dust devils and other small-scale vortices.

TL;DR: A review of the initiation, dynamics, geomorphology and evolution of incipient foredunes, established foredune, and blowout is given in this paper, where the authors present a new model of the evolutionary paths at various possible time scales.

TL;DR: In this paper, geologic evidence supports the hypothesis of a megamonsoon that reached maximum strength in the Triassic, and wind directions from Colorado Plateau eolian sandstones are consistent with an increasing influence of monsoonal circulation at this time.

TL;DR: In this article, a broad-based perspective of the essentials of modern geoarchaeology is presented to demonstrate the breadth of the approaches and the depth of the problems that it can tackle.

TL;DR: In this paper, the character of the superficial sediments is interpreted in terms of sedimentation processes and it is argued that these are controlled by the strong tidal currents, and the subsequent history of land deposits after a marine transgression and of younger material on present-day current-swept sea floors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the advantages of the use of the stereographic polar net for representation of cross-bed attitudes and describes a mode of analysis for the same based on the consideration of each attitude as a vector quantity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the wide scope of sedimentology, as they see it, a scope which may be broader than that of some of their colleagues, and suggest that a critical synthesis of this field is a matter of importance and urgency.