Aeolian Sand and Sand Dunes
It is more than half a century since the publication of R. A. Bagnold’s classic book The physics of blown sand and desert dunes, and it is a tribute to the quality of Bagnold’s work that many of the fundamental principles which he developed - main valid t
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Kenneth Pye · Haim Tsoar
Aeolian Sand and Sand Dunes
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Kenneth Pye Associates Ltd., Crowthorne Enterprise Centre, Crowthorne Business Estate Old Wokingham Road, Crowthorne, Berksire RG45 6AW, UK Haim Tsoar Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Department of Geography and Environmental Development POB 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
ISBN 978-3-540-85909-3
e-ISBN 978-3-540-85910-9
DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-85910-9 Library of Congress Number: 2008935393 © 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typesetting and Production: le-tex publishing services oHG, Leipzig, Germany Cover Design: deblik, Berlin Printed on acid-free paper 987654321 springer.com
Preface to the 2009 Reprint
Our decision to produce a reprinted version of Aeolian Sand and Sand Dunes has been based on several factors. The original version, published by Unwin Hyman in 1990, has been out of print for several years and we have received frequent enquiries about the availability of ’spare’ copies of the book, either new or secondhand! A measure of the book’s success is provided by the fact that it was one of the top ten most cited books in the journal Geomorphology over the period 1995–2004 (Doyle & Julian, 2005, ‘The most cited works in Geomorphology’, Geomorphology 72, 238–249). Another indicator is provided by the fact that there are only two books identified by Google Scholar related to aeolian geomorphology which have a larger number of citations, namely Bagnold’s classic The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, originally published by Methuen in 1941, and Pye’s Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits, published by Academic Press in 1987. During the 20 years since we first wrote the book there have inevitably been many new developments in the field, notably relating to aeolian sand transport processes, numerical modelling of dune development, the effects of climate change and other factors on the mobility and stability of sand dunes, and on dune management and conservation. In our opinion, a revised edition of the original book would not have allowed full justice to be done to this new work while at the same time retaining the essential character of the original version. We have therefore opted for a reprinted and re-st
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