ABSTRACT
These proceedings record the results of climate change in many areas which are hyper-arid deserts today but which, almost cyclically, at intervals of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, have had a much more humid climate.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|68 pages
Quaternary sedimentation anddiagenesis
part 2|127 pages
Dunes and inland sabkhas
part 3|28 pages
Fluvial or wadi systems
part 4|170 pages
Quaternary climatic changes
part 5|85 pages
Geochemical applications to Quaternary deserts
part 6|47 pages
Application of remote sensing to desertenvironments
part 7|61 pages
Quaternary analogs to ancient and recent sediments
part 8|17 pages
Archaeology
part 9|11 pages
Glossary