Inland Dunes of North America

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction to Inland Dunes of North America

   • Nicholas Lancaster, Patrick Hesp

   Pages 1-10

3. Quaternary Eolian Dunes and Sand Sheets in Inland Locations of the Atlantic Coastal Plain Province, USA

   • Christopher S. Swezey

   Pages 11-63

4. Dunes of the Laurentian Great Lakes

   • Edward Hansen, Suzanne DeVries-Zimmerman, Robin Davidson-Arnott, Deanna van Dijk, Brian Bodenbender, Zoran Kilibarda et al.

   Pages 65-120

5. The Central and Southern Great Plains

   • William C. Johnson, Paul R. Hanson, Alan F. Halfen, Aaron N. Koop

   Pages 121-179

6. The Nebraska Sand Hills

   • Joseph A. Mason, James B. Swinehart, David B. Loope

   Pages 181-206

7. White Sands

   • Ryan C. Ewing

   Pages 207-237

8. Great Sand Dunes

   • Andrew Valdez, James R. Zimbelman

   Pages 239-285

9. Sand Dunes, Modern and Ancient, on Southern Colorado Plateau Tribal Lands, Southwestern USA

   • Margaret H. Redsteer

   Pages 287-310

10. Dunefields of the Southwest Deserts

    • Nicholas Lancaster

    Pages 311-337

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.  

• 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

• Desert Research Institute, Reno, USA

  Nicholas Lancaster

• College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

  Patrick Hesp

Patrick Hesp (Ph.D; DSc) is the Strategic Professor of Coastal Studies, College of Science and Engineering at Flinders University, Australia. He has held academic positions in NSW, Western Australia, Singapore, USA, and NZ, non-academic positions in the WA State Dept. of Agriculture, Geomarine P/L, and the Rottnest Island Authority, held visiting professorships and fellowships in South Africa, Namibia, Israel, Holland, China, Brazil, Italy, Malaysia, Thailand, and France, and has worked on beaches and coastal and desert dunes all over the world. He is an expert on coastal dune geomorphology, and has published over 290 articles in his career to date.
 
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.

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