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Books

Arritt, S. / THE LIVING EARTH BOOK OF DESERTS, Pleasantville, 1993, cl, 224 pages, - 2 -, $ 35


Arritt, S. / THE LIVING EARTH BOOK OF DESERTS, Pleasantville, 1993, cl, 224 pages, - 5 -, $ 25

Bagnold, R. A. / THE PHYSICS OF BLOWN SAND AND SAND DUNES, London, 1954, 265 pages, 16 plates, 84 diagrams, - 2 -, $ 169


Berry, K. H. and Murphy, R. / DESERTS OF THE WORLD, PART 1: THE CHANGING MOJAVE DESERT, In: Journal of Arid Environments, Volume 67, Supplement, 2006, pb, 261 pages - 2 -, $ 25

Bleed, A. and Flowerday, C., Ed. / AN ATLAS OF THE SAND HILLS (NEBRASKA), 2nd Edition, Resource Atlas No. 5a, Lincoln, 1990, pb, 265 pages, - 2 -, $ 27

Carr, W. H. / THE DESERT SPEAKS: THE STORY OF THE ARIZONA SONORA DESERT MUSEUM, 1951-1979, Tucson, 1979, pb, 43 pages, - 3 -, $ 5


Cooke, R. U. and Warren, A. / GEOMORPHOLOGY IN DESERTS, Berkeley, 1973, cl, 374 pages, index. - 3 -, $ 24

Cooke, R., Warren, A., and Goudie, A. / DESERT GEOMORPHOLOGY, London, pb, 526 pages, - 2 -, $ 169

Doehring, D. O., Ed. / GEOMORPHOLOGY IN ARID REGIONS, 13 papers from the 18th annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, Ft. Collins, 1977, cl, 272 pages, - 1 -, $ 70; also available, - 3 -, $ 50


El-Baz, F. / DESERTS AND ARID LANDS, The Hague, 1984, cl, 222 pages, - 3 -, $ 45 [Book uses Remote Sensing to study deserts and arid lands of the Earth]

El-Baz, F. and Maxwell, T. A., Ed. / DESERT LANDFORMS OF SOUTHWEST EGYPT: A BASIS FOR COMPARISON WITH MARS, NASA, 1982, pb, 372 pages, illustrated throughout the 22 chapters, - 1 -, $ 40

George, U. / IN THE DESERTS OF THE EARTH, New York, 1976, cl, 309 pages, - 3 -, $ 15

Grayson, D. K. / THE DESERT’S PAST: A Natural Prehistory of the Great Basin, Washington, 1993, cl, 356 pages, - 2 -, $ 40

Greeley, R. and Iversen, J. D. / WIND AS A GEOLOGICAL PROCESS ON EARTH, MARS, VENUS, AND TITAN, Planetary Science Series No. 4, Cambridge, 1987, pb, 333 pages, - 2 -, $ 45

Greeley, R., Womer, M.B., and Papson, R. P. / AEOLIAN FEATURES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: A Comparative Planetary Geology Guidebook, Washington, D.C., 1978, pb, 264 pages, - 2 -, $ 59


Hsu, K. J. / THE MEDITERRANEAN WAS A DESERT: A Voyage of the Glomar Challenger, Princeton, 1983, pb, 197 pages, - 3 -, $ 10

Jaeger, E. C. / THE NORTH AMERICAN DESERTS, Stanford, 1983, cl, 308 pages, - 1 -, $ 16

James, N. P. and Dalrymple, R. W., Ed. / FACIES MODELS 4, Geological Association of Canada, St. Johns, 2010, pb, 586 pages, - 1 -, $ 100

Lancaster, N. / A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DUNES: EARTH, MARS, AND VENUS, NASA Contractor Report 4149, 1988, pb, 113 pages, - 2 -, $ 45

Mabbitt. J. A. / DESERT LANDFORMS: AN INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMATIC GEOMORPHOLOGY VOLUME 2, Cambridge, 1977, cl, 340 pages, - 3 -, $ 26

Marrs, R. W. and Kolm, K. E. / INTERPRETATION OF WINDFLOW CHARACTERISTICS FROM EOLIAN LANDFORMS, GSA SP 192, Boulder, 1992, pb, 109 pages, - 5 -, $ 35


McCauley, J. F., et.al. / YARDANGS OF PERU AND OTHER DESERT REGIONS, USGS Interagency Report: Astrogeology 81, 1977, pb, 177 pages, 71 figs., - 3 -, $ 65 [Covers areas in Peru, China, Iran, Afghanistan, Africa, Arabian Peninsula, and Southern Africa]

McGinnies, W. G., Goldman, B. J. and Paylore, P., Ed. / DESERTS OF THE WORLD: An Appraisal of Research into their Physical and Biological Environments, Tucson, 1968, cl, 788 pages, - 3 -, $ 75

McGinnies, W. G. / DISCOVERING THE DESERT: Legacy of the Carneige Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tucson, 1981, pb, 276 pages, - 2 -, $ 10

Menenti, M. / PHYSICAL ASPECTS AND DETERMINATION OF EVAPORATION IN DESERTS APPLYING REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES, Wageningen, 1984, pb, 202 pages, - 3 -, $ 50

Nickling, W. G., Ed. / AEOLIAN GEOMORPHOLOGY, Binghamton Symposium in Geomorphology: International Series No. 17, Boston, 1986, 311 pages, - 2 -, $ 149

Péwé, T. L., Ed. / DESERT DUST: Origin, Characteristics, and Effect on Man, GSA SP 186, Boulder, 1981, pb, 303 pages, - 1 -, $ 60

Péwé, T. L., Ed. / DESERT DUST: Origin, Characteristics, and Effect on Man, GSA SP 186, Boulder, 1981, pb, 303 pages, - 3 -, $ 45

Powell, J. W. / REPORT OF THE LANDS OF THE ARID REGION OF THE UNITED STATES WITH A MORE DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE LANDS OF UTAH, Harvard, 1983, facsimile of the original 1879 original, 195 pages, - 2 -, $ 20

Pye, K. and Lancaster, N., Ed. / AEOLIAN SEDIMENTS, ANCIENT AND MODERN, International Association of Sedimentologists, SP 16, Oxford, 1993, pb, 167 pages, - 2 -, $ 65

Pye, K., Ed. / THE DYNAMICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT OF AEOLIAN SEDIMENTARY SYSTEMS, Geological Society Special Publication No. 72, London, 1993, cl, 332 pages, - 1 -, $ 179

Scholle, P. A. / A COLOR ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO CARBONATE ROCK CONSTITUENTS, TEXTURES, CEMENTS, AND POROSITIES, AAPG M 27, Tulsa, 1978, cl, 241 pages, - 2 -, $ 65

Schultz, C. B. and Frye, J. C. / LOESS AND RELATED EOLIAN DEPOSITS OF THE WORLD, Volume 12, Proceedings of the VII Congress, International Association of Quaternary Research, Lincoln, 1968, cl, 369 pages, - 2 -, $ 38


Schultz, C. B. and Frye, J. C. / LOESS AND RELATED EOLIAN DEPOSITS OF THE WORLD, Volume 12, Proceedings of the VII Congress, International Association of Quaternary Research, Lincoln, 1968, cl, 369 pages, - 3 -, $ 25

Siever, R. / SAND, New York, 1988, cl, 225 pages, - 3 -, $ 20

Stoppato, M. C. and Bini, A. / DESERTS, A Firefly Guide, New York, 2003, pb, 256 pages, - 2 -, $ 16

Thomas, D. S. G. and Shaw, P. A. / THE KALAHARI ENVIRONMENTS, Cambridge, 1991, cl, 284 pages, - 2 -, $ 108

Thorne, C. R., et.al., Ed. / THE PHYSICS OF SEDIMENT TRANSPORT BY WIND AND WATER, A Collection of Hallmark Papers by R. A. Bagnold, New York, 1988, pb, 359 pages, - 3 -, $ 45

Tungsheng, L., et.al. / LOESS AND THE ENVIRONMENT, Beijing, 1985, 251 pages, - 3 -, $ 49 [Book is a continuation of 3 monographs summing up the study of loess in China]

Tungsheng, L., Ed. / ASPECTS OF LOESS RESEARCH, Beijing, 1987, pb, 447 pages, - 3 -, $ 30 [covers loess, paleosol and paleoenvironments of China; Stratigraphy and Chronology of deposits in China; Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Isotopic composition of loess; Physical, Mechanical properties and Enginnering Geology of Loess; Geomorphology and soil erosin]

Van Dyke, J. C. / THE DESERT, 2nd Ed., Tucson, 1920, Reprint of the 1918 illustrated edition, cl, 233 pages, - 3 -, $ 30

Van Dyke, J. C. / THE DESERT, 2nd Ed., Tucson, 1976, Arizona Historical Society facsimile copy of the 1903 edition, cl, 233 pages, - 3 -, $ 20

Welland, M. / SAND: THE NEVER-ENDING STORY, Berekeley, 2009, cl, 343 pages, - 2 - $ 24

Wells, S. G. and Haragan, D. R., Ed. / ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF DESERTS, Albuquerque, 1983, pb, 228 pages, - 1 -, $ 20

White, G. F. / THE FUTURE OF ARID LANDS, 1956, cl, 453 pages, - 5 -, $ 24



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