The Search for Timbuktu: A View of Deserts : an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 25 October 1985 |
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Academic Press aeolation Aeolian Features Africa Allen and Unwin America ancient areas arid lands Basin and Range biogeographical cause cent century climatic change core sediments decades deflation desert explorer desert landscapes Desert London desertification desiccation Doornkamp Dust Bowl dust storm activity early Earth East enormous environment environmental evaporation example G. K. Gilbert geographers Geomorphology George Perkins Marsh Glacial Maximum Global go to deserts Goudie ground water hazard High Plains human Ice Age impact instability of arid irrigation schemes Karakoram Kropotkin landscape degradation low latitudes major Mediterranean Mediterranean basin Mohenjo-Daro motives notably occur Oman Oxford physical geography places Plate Tectonics Pleistocene pluvial post-glacial Prehistory progressive desiccation rain forest rainfall levels rapid desiccation relict remote sensing Royal Geo Sahara Sahel drought salinity Salt Weathering sand dunes sand seas SEARCH FOR TIMBUKTU soil erosion surface theme TIMBUKTU A VIEW Tropical University variability vegetation VIEW OF DESERTS yardangs zone