Dunes is the first book in over a decade to incorporate the
latest research in this active and fast-developing field. It
discusses the shapes, sizes, patterns, distribution, history and
care of wind-blown dunes, and covers all aspects of dunes,
terrestrial and in the Solar System.
* The only book to cover all dunes, terrestrial and in the Solar
System, in deserts, on coasts, and in the past
* Represents the most current update on the research of dunes for
over a decade
* Incorporates the latest research to come out of China where the
field is most rapidly expanding
* Discusses the most recent range of skills and technology now
focused on the study of dunes
* Brings up-to-date a rapidly expanding field
A propos de l’auteur
Andrew Warren is Emeritus Professor of Geography, University
College London where he taught between 1964 and 2002. He had
previously worked as soil surveyor in Pakistan. His dune
research has taken him to the Sudan, Nebraska, Libya, Algeria,
Saudi Arabia, Niger, Israel, Oman and Chad. His books include
Geomorphology in Deserts, (1973) with Ron Cooke, Desert
Geomorphology (1992) with Ron Cooke and Andrew Goudie, and
Aeolian Geomorphology (1996) with Ian Livingstone.
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