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Activity of Wind-Blown Sand and the Formation of Feathered Sand Ridges in the Kumtagh Desert, China.
Autor:
Kongtai Liao1 kongtail@163.com, Jianjun Qu1, Jinnian Tang2, Feng Ding2, Hujun Liu2, Shujuan Zhu2
Publikováno v:
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. May2010, Vol. 135 Issue 2, p333-350. 18p. 5 Color Photographs, 1 Diagram, 3 Charts, 11 Graphs, 3 Maps.
Publikováno v:
Near Surface Geophysics. 11:11-18
The Kumtagh Desert, the last desert in China to be explored, contains a distribution of feathery dunes, a type of complex linear dune composited by linear dunes and lingoid zibars. A debate about the existence, underlying relief and formation process
Publikováno v:
Environmental Earth Sciences. 67:243-250
In this study, wind tunnel tests were performed to determine the relationships between sediment transport, the surface moisture content, and wind velocity using beach sands from a tropical humid coastal area of China. The variation in the properties
Publikováno v:
Science China Earth Sciences. 54:1215-1225
Feathered sand ridges in the northeastern Kumtagh Desert in China cover an area of 4016 km2 and consist of crescent sand ridges and interridge tongue-shaped dunes. Differences in grain size, mineral composition and albedo between crescent sand ridges
Publikováno v:
Chinese Geographical Science. 21:267-278
The Badain Jaran Desert, located in the Alxa Plateau, Northwest China, features mega-dunes and a unique dune-lake alternation landscape. This paper presented the aeolian sediment structures of three representative dunes in the Badain Jaran Desert usi
Publikováno v:
Environmental Earth Sciences. 64:1375-1385
This article reported a wind tunnel test of sediment transport related to surface moisture content and wind velocity using sands from tropical humid coastal area. A 1 mm-thick portion of surface sand was scraped using a self-made sediment sampler, an
Publikováno v:
Aeolian Research. 1:143-146
Qinghai-Tibet Railway, with an average altitude of 4500 m above sea level, is the longest railway in a high altitude region. It passes through 550 km-long permafrost belt and crosses the Kunlun and Tanggulha Mountain on Tibetan Plateau. Since it open
Publikováno v:
Geomorphology. 104:230-237
Wind erosion has major impacts on dune growth, desertification, and architecture on sea coasts. The deflation threshold shear velocity is a crucial parameter in predicting erosion, and surface moisture greatly affects this threshold and thus sand sta