Stone Pavements in Deserts 1

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ID8375632
AuthorsRonald U Cooke (University College London, corresponding author)
Year1970
Volume60
Issue3
Pages560-577
Publication date1970-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-8306.1970.tb00741.x
OpenAlexW2028260376
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Stone pavements are armored surfaces comprising intricate mosaics of coarse particles, usually only one or two stones thick, set on or in fine material. They occur widely in many unvegetated areas, and preeminently in hot deserts. Pavement studies in several deserts, and especially in Chile and California, suggest that: 1) deflation may be a relatively unimportant process of pavement formation; 2) running water, and processes causing upward migration of coarse particles through the soil may effect coarse particle concentration at the surface; 3) various superficial disintegration processes may break up coarse particles and increase particle density; 4) the ways in which pavements are established, their rates of formation, and the relative importance of the different processes, may vary greatly from place to place

Mineralogy · Particle (ecology) · Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation · Environmental Science · Geology · Grouting, Rheology, and Soil Mechanics · Soil and Unsaturated Flow

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