Vegetation is the most common and most reliable stabilizer of loose soil or sand. This ancient technique is for the first time cast into a set of equations of motion describing the competition between aeolian sand transport and vegetation growth. Our set of equations is then applied to study quantitatively the transition between barchans and parabolic dunes driven by the dimensionless fixation ...

We study the self-organized ordering of nanostructures produced by ion-beam sputtering of targets amorphizing under irradiation. By introducing a model akin to models of pattern formation in aeolian sand dunes, we extend consistently the current continuum theory of erosion by IBS. We obtain new nonlinear effects responsible for the in-plane ordering of the structures, whose strength correlates ...

Different types of sediment trap have been introduced so far to be used in erosion measuring stations, each with its own advantages and disadvantages in trapping aeolian particles. These traps have different collection and retention efficiency due to aerodynamic conditions. Some characteristics such as isokinetic feature of the trap, collection efficiency, time needed to download sediment, capa...

spatial analysis of aeolian landforms by fractal theory (case study: ardestan rig) abstract natural sciences face to a great revolution, nowadays. now, scientists think the world as a collection of complex systems which prediction of consequences of this complex systems is so difficult. in this situation the systems have rotational act so irregularly lead to regular and regularly lead to irregu...

soil erosion and its associated land degradation represent major problems for development as well as for environmental resources protection. there is an urgent need to obtain reliable quantitative data on the extent and rates of soil erosion worldwide. the use of 137cs radionuclide for studying soil erosion and deposition is a valuable tool employed throughout the world. in the present study, u...

Recent computer models of landform evolution have focused on surface processes of river networks and hillslopes (e.g., Ahnert, 1976; Kirkby, 1986; Willgoose et al., 1991a, b; Koltermann and Gorelick, 1992; Howard, 1994; Howard et al., 1994; Smith et al., 1997). Most of these models are based on complicated differential equations that are difficult to solve. Chase (1992) developed a cellular aut...

Incision as a result of fluvial erosion is an important process to model when simulating landform evolution. For gullies, it apparent that coupled with the processes cause incision there must be range stop incision. Once started, rills and gullies will grow infinitely without reduction in support area and/or being arrested by deposition armouring. Some these have been well studied under heading...

The Database of Aeolian Sedimentary Architecture (DASA) records the architecture and spatio-temporal evolution a broad range modern recently active aeolian systems, their preserved deposits in ancient successions. DASA currently stores data on >14,000 geologic geomorphic entities (including bounding surfaces transition relationships) extracted from >60 case-study examples documented published l...