10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BARCHANE»
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1
Geological Survey Professional Paper
1967 Barchan; also, barcan, barchane. Climbing dune (220) . Hegabarchan (232
) . No term. (All deserts) . barkan, barkhan (215). Transverse dune (251).
Crescentic dune (220). Mabbutt, J. A. 1 46 8 Barchans Transverse crescentic
links.
2
Arid Land Geom: Geom Crit Conc
Figure 12 Barchane of the sahara. (Adapted fionz G. Rollund.) The horns or
cusps of the barchanes, pointing to leeward, are readily explained, for the lowest
parts of the dune travel quickest. A form as of the moon in her first quarter (i.e.
with ...
3
Abstracts of papers submitted for six meetings with which ...
represents the slip-faces of barchane dunes (e.g., Opdyke, 1961). Mean cross-
bed orientation is believed to indicate the direction of an essentially
unidirectional wind, generally the trade wind. Neither eolian sand nor barchane
dunes are ...
4
Russian Meteorology and Hydrology
THE SIMPLEST BARCHANE CIRCULATION MODEL It is well known that in clear
weather a weak (about 1-2 m/s) circulation cell appears over the hill which is
produced by irregular heating of the solar and opposite (shady) side of the hill.
5
Annals of geomorphology
Die am stärksten deflatierten Sande treten in der Oasendepression Dakhla in
Ägypten auf Sandschilden auf, die als degenerierte Barchane inmitten von
Gärten liegen und völlig stabilisiert sind. Auch einzelne Draa-Rücken des
südlichen ...
Andreas Aigner, Josef Stini, Hans Mortensen, 1996
6
United States Geological Survey Professional Paper
Most of the dunes are of the barchane type, that is, in plan they are crescent
shape and convex toward the windward side (Shippee, 1932, fig. 21, p. 21). The
dunes tend to become clustered. In parts of the Green River Desert the clusters
also ...
Dune groups on the Earth may cover thousands of square km, and the collective
shape of an array of dunes remarkably often takes on the overall shape of the
individual dune, particularly in the case of barchane dunes. The largest barchane
...
Cornell University. Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, 1971
8
Aerial photographic interpretation: principles and applications
An area covered with transverse chains of irregular, intersecting barchane dunes.
These might properly be considered as transverse dunes. The white tones (
particularly bright because of the gypsum sands), the uneven slopes, and the
abrupt ...
9
Translations on People's Republic of China
Top of the sand hills in T'o-k'o-la-k'o-k'u-mu of eastern Chia-shih Crescentic
barchane in the east of T1 ieh-li-mu-hua Crescentic barchane in the southwest of
T1 ieh-li-mu-hua North of A-ho-le-kun Crescentic barchane of Ch' i -k'u-tou-k'o
Top ...
10
A Manual on the airphoto interpretation of soils and rocks ...
The barchane dune is perhaps the most distinctive of all types of dunes, and its
crescent -like form is easily identified on aerial photographs, since it represents
the elementary dune form. Its surface of bare sand is convex transversely
Excellent ...
Purdue University. Airphoto Interpretation Laboratory, 1953
