Desert Winds
Author : Carol S. Breed
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Eolian processes
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Author : Carol S. Breed
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Eolian processes
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Publisher :
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : Lawrence R. Walker
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816538417
The Mojave Desert has a rich natural history. Despite being sandwiched between the larger Great Basin and Sonoran Deserts, it has enough mountains, valleys, canyons, and playas for any eager explorer. Ancient and current waterways carve the bajadas and valley bottoms. This diverse topography gives rise to a multitude of habitats for plants and animals, many of which are found nowhere else in the world. A Natural History of the Mojave Desert explores how a combination of complex geology, varied geography, and changing climate has given rise to intriguing flora and fauna—including almost 3,000 plant species and about 380 terrestrial vertebrate animal species. Of these, one quarter of the plants and one sixth of the animals are endemic. The authors, who, combined, have spent more than six decades living in and observing the Mojave Desert, offer a scientifically insightful and personally observed understanding of the desert. They invite readers to understand how the Mojave Desert looks, sounds, feels, tastes, and smells. They prompt us to understand how humans have lived in this desert where scant vegetation and water have challenged humans, past and present. A Natural History of the Mojave Desert provides a lively and informed guide to understanding how life has adapted to the hidden riverbeds, huge salt flats, tiny wetlands, and windswept hills that characterize this iconic desert.
Author : Ronald U. Cooke
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 1993-01-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780203020593
Including recent research findings from terrestrial satellite imagery, the study of planetary landscapes, and advances in laboratory work, this also covers the environmental processes involved in desertification and the solution of planning and
Author : Paul Tawrell
Publisher : Paul Tawrell
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 17,45 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780974082028
Extensively researched and illustrated guidebook of nearly every conceivable aspect of outdoor camping and survival in all types of terrain and climate.
Author : Paul Tawrell
Publisher : Paul Tawrell
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2008-03-18
Category : Backpacking
ISBN : 9780974082035
The aim of this book is to entertain its readers, to alert readers to the potential dangers and emergencies that might occur inthe wilderness and how to avoid them.
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Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Forest management
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Author : Leonard Michaels
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 1995-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520201644
A vivid collection of stories, essays, remembrances and poems, conceived and organized as a journey through California, by a diverse and splendid array of writers including Jack Kerouac, Amy Tan, M.F.K. Fisher, Tom Wolfe, and Gore Vidal.
Author : Carol S. Breed
Publisher :
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Eolian processes
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Page : 250 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Agriculture
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