Challenges in aeolian geomorphology: Investigating aeolian streamers

Geomorphology ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 93 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas C.W. Baas
Keyword(s):  
Aeolian Geomorphology

scholarly journals Planetary Aeolian Geomorphology

2019 ◽  
pp. 261-286
Author(s):  
Mary C. Bourke ◽  
Matthew Balme ◽  
Stephen Lewis ◽  
Ralph D. Lorenz ◽  
Eric Parteli
Keyword(s):  
Aeolian Geomorphology

Aeolian Geomorphology: an Introduction

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-167
Author(s):  
Nicholas Lancaster
Keyword(s):  
Aeolian Geomorphology

scholarly journals Of Meuse and Man: the geomorphogenetic and archaeological predictive maps of the Dutch Meuse valley

2017 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.F.B. Isarin ◽  
E. Rensink ◽  
G.R. Ellenkamp ◽  
E. Heunks
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Younger Dryas ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
The North ◽  
Aeolian Geomorphology ◽  
Landscape Processes ◽  
Cultural Themes ◽  
Human Habitation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

AbstractFor the first time, geomorphology and archaeology are combined for a 165 km long stretch of the Meuse river, resulting in a geomorphogenetic map (GKM) and a series of archaeological predictive maps (AVM). The maps cover the central part the Meuse valley, located in the province of Limburg between Mook in the north and Eijsden in the south. The area consists of fluvial and aeolian landforms of the Holocene Meuse floodplain and Younger Dryas aged terraces along it, spanning a period of approximately 15,000 years of landscape genesis and human habitation. The GKM more clearly discriminates between map units of Younger Dryas and early Holocene age than in previous mappings of the Meuse valley. The AVM series provide predictive information on the location of sites for four distinct consecutive archaeological periods and four main cultural themes. The maps contribute to a better understanding of landscape processes (fluvial and aeolian geomorphology and the impact of man on river behaviour), and the possibilities for human habitation and land use in prehistoric and historic times.

scholarly journals Searching for Non-Causal Explanations in a Sea of Causes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alisa Bokulich
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Causal Explanation ◽  
Causal Explanations ◽  
Explanatory Pluralism ◽  
Sand Ripples ◽  
Scientific Explanations ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Aeolian Geomorphology

In the spirit of explanatory pluralism, this chapter argues that causal and non-causal explanations of a phenomenon are compatible, each being useful for bringing out different sorts of insights. First the chapter reviews the author’s model-based account of scientific explanation, which can accommodate causal and non-causal explanations alike. Then it distills from the literature an important core conception of non-causal explanation. This non-causal form of model-based explanation is illustrated using the example of how Earth scientists in a subfield known as aeolian geomorphology are explaining the formation of regularly-spaced sand ripples. The chapter concludes that even when it comes to everyday “medium-sized dry goods” such as sand ripples, where there is a complete causal story to be told, one can find examples of non-causal scientific explanations.

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