Desert rock coatings

Ronald Dorn

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-5719-9_7

Desert rock coatings

Ronald Dorn

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Abstract

Desert landforms are characterized by an abundance of 'bare' rock and mineral surfaces. Mountains host widespread exposures of bedrock. Gravel desert pavements cap alluvial terraces and fans. Even sand dunes are themselves composed of rock fragments exposed to the atmosphere without substantive plant cover. This chapter focuses on an irony, that the supposed fundamental bare-rock nature of desert landforms stretches the truth.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Geomorphology of Desert Environments
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Pages	153-186
Number of pages	34
ISBN (Print)	9781402057182
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5719-9_7
State	Published - 2009

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General Environmental Science
General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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