Overview
- Comprehensively documents inland dune systems as well as coastal dunes in North America
- Maximizes readers' insights into different dune fields origins, dynamics and development
- Explores the relations between geomorphology and ecosystem processes
Part of the book series: Dunes of the World (DUNES)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- North American dunes
- coastal geomorphology
- dune fields
- anthropogenic disturbance
- southwestern deserts
- quarternary history
- coastal development
- desert environments
- climate change and sea level rise
- major lake systems
- sediment transport
- aeolian processes
- coastal sciences
- world regional geography
- climate change
About this book
Inland sand dunes are widespread in North America and are found from the North Slope of Alaska to the Sonoran Desert in northern Mexico and from the Delmarva Peninsula in the east to Southern California in the west. In this edited book, we highlight recent research on areas of inland dunes that span a range from those that are actively accumulating in current conditions of climate and sediment supply to those that were formed in past conditions and are now degraded relict systems.
This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of physical geography, geomorphology, environmental sciences, and earth sciences. Contributions include detailed analyses of individual active dune systems at White Sands, New Mexico; Great Sand Dunes, Colorado; and the Laurentian Great Lakes; as well as the vegetation-stabilized dunes of the Nebraska Sand Hills and the Colorado Plateau. Additional chapters discuss the widespread partially vegetated dune systems of the central and southern Great Plains; the relict dunes of the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the eastern USA; and active and stabilized dunes of the Colorado Plateau and the southwestern deserts of the USA and northern Mexico.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nicholas Lancaster is Emeritus Research Professor at the Desert Research Institute, Nevada, USA. His decades of research on sand dunes has taken him to deserts in Africa (Namib, Kalahari, northern and western Sahara), Arabia, Antarctica, and the western United States (Mojave and Sonoran Deserts). His work has resulted in more than 150 scientific papers and several books and has been recognized by awards from the Geological Society of America, the Association of America Geographers, the International Society for Aeolian Research, the International Quaternary Association, and the Nevada System of Higher Education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inland Dunes of North America
Editors: Nicholas Lancaster, Patrick Hesp
Series Title: Dunes of the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40498-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40497-0Published: 21 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40500-7Published: 22 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40498-7Published: 20 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2509-7806
Series E-ISSN: 2509-7814
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 337
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 97 illustrations in colour
Topics: Physical Geography, Coastal Sciences, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Geoecology/Natural Processes, Sedimentology, Climate Change