sand

A loose material consisting of small mineral particles, or rock and mineral particles, distinguishable by the naked eye; grains vary from almost spherical to angular, with a diameter range from 1/16 to 2 millimeters. (Source: MGH)

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Katoma LN 1989. A comparative analysis of the sand-trapping potential of two namib desert shrubs: a case study at Gobabeb.

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Blumroeder J, Eccard JA, Blaum N 2012. Behavioural flexibility in foraging mode of the spotted sand lizard (Pedioplanis l. lineoocellata) seems to buffer negative impacts of savanna degradation. Journal of Arid Environments 77 149-152

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Wasiolka B 2007. The impact of overgrazing on reptile diversity and population dynamics of Pedioplanis l. lineoocellata in the southern Kalahari, South Africa.

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Impact of overgrazing on reptile diversity and population dynamics of Pedioplanis_southern Kalahari.pdf	3.18 MB

Wasiolka B, Blaum N, Jeltsch F, Henschel J 2009. Behavioural responses of the lizard Pedioplanis l. lineoocellata to overgrazing. Acta Oecologica 35 157-162

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Hellwig DHR 1973. Evaluation of water from sand, 3: The loss of water into the atmosphere from a sandy river bed under arid climatic condition. Journal of Hydrology 18 305-316

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Ward JD, Bulley BG 1988. Aeolian deposits at Henties Bay, central Namib coast: provenance and engineering implications. Communications of the Geological Survey of South West Africa/Namibia 4 33-36

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Noli G 1993. The tourist potential of the Sperrgebiet of the Namib desert, being the area within 100km of the Atlantic coastline bordered by the 26th parallel in the north and by the Orange River in the South.

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Tschinkel WR 2015. Experiments Testing the Causes of Namibian Fairy Circles. Plos ONE 10 (10) e0140099

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Schulze L 1962. The Tenebrionidae of southern Africa XXXIII: Description of the larvae of Gonopus tibialis Fabricius and Gonopus agrestis Fahraeus (Gonopina, sensu Koch 1956). Cimbebasia 5 1-12

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Description of the larvae of Gonopus tibialis Fabricius and Gonopus agrestis Fahraeus.pdf	1.49 MB

Watson RT, Irish J 1988. An introduction to the Lepismatidae (Thysanura: Insecta) of the Namib Desert sand dunes. Madoqua 15 (4) 285-293

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An introduction to the Lepismatidae _Thysanura Insecta_ of the Namib Desert sand dunes_1988.pdf	1.28 MB

Fryberger SG, Hesp P, Hastings K 1992. Aeolian granule ripple deposits, Namibia. Sedimentology 39 (2) 319-331

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-3091.1992.tb01041.x/abstract

Bullard JE, White K, Livingstone I 2011. Morphometric analysis of aeolian bedforms in the Namib Sand Sea using ASTER data. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 36 (11) 1534-1549

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.2189/abstract

Zhu B, Yu J 2014. Aeolian sorting processes in the Ejina desert basin (China) and their response to depositional environment. Aeolian Research 12 111-120

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875963713001031

Muhs DR 2004. Mineralogical maturity in dunefields of North America, Africa and Australia. Geomorphology 59 (1-4) 247-269

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X03003271

Chase BM, Thomas DSG 2007. Multiphase late Quaternary aeolian sediment accumulation in western South Africa: Timing and relationship to palaeoclimatic changes inferred from the marine record. Quaternary International 166 (1) 29-41

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618206003247

Neish CD, Lorenz RD, Kirk RL, Wye LC 2010. Radarclinometry of the sand seas of Africa's Namibia and Saturn's moon Titan. Icarus 208 (1) 385-394

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103510000424

Bennett MR, Morse SA, Liutkus-Pierce C, McClymont J, Evans M, Crompton RH, Thackeray JF 2014. Exceptional preservation of children's footprints from a Holocene footprint site in Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 97 331-341

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X14001745

Göttsche F-M, Hulley GC 2012. Validation of six satellite-retrieved land surface emissivity products over two land cover types in a hyper-arid region. Remote Sensing of Environment 124 149-158

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425712002131

Enders MM 1995. Size-assortative mating in a tenebrionid beetle of the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 29 (4) 469-484

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196395800190

McTainsh G, Livingstone I, Strong C 2013. Fundamentals of Aeolian Sediment Transport: Aeolian Sediments. Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences Treatise on Geomorphology, Volume 11: Aeolian Geomorphology 11 23-42

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123747396002967

Walden J, White K, Drakes NA 1996. Controls on dune colour in the Namib sand sea: preliminary results. Journal of African Earth Sciences 22 (3) 349-353

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0899536296000115

Gehring AU, Riahi N, Kind J, Almqvist BSG, Weidler PG 2014. The formation of the Namib Sand Sea inferred from the spatial pattern of magnetic rock fragments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 395 168-172

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X14001939

Teller JT, Rutter N, Lancaster N 1990. Sedimentology and paleohydrology of Late Quaternary lake deposits in the northern Namib Sand Sea, Namibia. Quaternary Science Reviews 9 (4) 343-364

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0277379190900278

Pulfrich A, Branch GM 2013. Using diamond-mined sediment discharges to test the paradigms of sandy-beach ecology. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science In Press

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272771413003430

Garzanti E, Ando S, Vezzoli G, Lustrino M, Boni M, Vermeesch P 2012. Petrology of the Namib Sand Sea: Long-distance transport and compositional variability in the wind-displaced Orange Delta. Earth- Sciences Reviews 112 (3-4) 173-189

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825212000190

Lancaster N 2013. Sand seas and dune fields. Treatise on Geomorphology, 11: Aeolian Geomorphology 219-245

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123747396003055

Weaver CM, Wiggs GFS 2011. Field measurements of mean and turbulent airflow over a barchan sand dune. Geomorphology 128 (1-2) 32-41

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X10005519

Stone A 2012. Recharge investigations above the Stampriet Aquifer in semi-arid Namibia using geochemical methods and environmental tracers; sand, salt and water. Quaternary International 279-280 (16) 470-471

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618212026195

Hipondoka MHT, Mauz B, Kempf J, Packman S, Chiverrell RC, Bloemendaal J 2014. Chronology of sand ridges and the Late Quaternary evolution of the Etosha Pan, Namibia. Geomorphology 204 (1) 553-563

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X13004418

Dauphin Y, Pickford M, Senut B 1998. Diagenetic changes in the mineral and organic phases of fossil avian eggshells from Namibia. Applied Geochemistry 13 (2) 243-256

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883292797000735

Lancaster N, Teller JT 1988. Interdune deposits of the Namib Sand Sea. Sedimentary Geology 55 (1-2) 91-107

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0037073888900917

Ward JD 1988. Eolian, fluvial and pan (playa) facies of the Tertiary Tsondab Sandstone Formation in the central Namib Desert, Namibia. Sedimentary Geology 55 (1-2) 143-162

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0037073888900942

White K, Walden J, Drake N, Eckardt F, Settlell J 1997. Mapping the iron oxide content of dune sands, Namib Sand Sea, Namibia, using landsat thematic mapper data. Remote Sensing of Environment 62 (1) 30-39

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425797000680

Kocurek G, Lancaster N, Carr M, Frank A 1999. Tertiary Tsondab Sandstone Formation: preliminary bedform reconstruction and comparison to modern Namib Sand Sea dunes. Journal of African Earth Sciences 29 (4) 629-642

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899536299001207

Bubenzer A, Bolten A 2008. The use of new elevation data (SRTM/ASTER) for the detection and morphometric quantification of Pleistocene megadunes (draa) in the eastern Sahara and the southern Namib. Geomorphology 102 (2) 221-231

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X08001840

Hulley SG, Hook SJ 2009. Intercomparison of versions 4, 4.1 and 5 of the MODIS Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity products and validation with laboratory measurements of sand samples from the Namib desert, Namibia. Remote Sensing of Environment 113 (6) 1313-1318

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425709000674

Stone AEC 2013. Age and dynamics of the Namib Sand Sea: A review of chronological evidence and possible landscape development models. Journal of African Earth Sciences 82 70-87

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X13000307

Breckle S-W, Yair A, Veste M 2008. General Conclusions – Sand Dune Deserts, Desertification, Rehabilitation and Conservation. Arid Dune Ecosystems 200 441-459

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-75498-5_30

Pietruszka RD, Hanrahan SA, Mitchell D, Seely MK 1986. Lizard herbivory in a sand dune environment: the diet of Angolosaurus skoogi. Oecologia 70 (4) 587-591

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00379909

Prestel E, Salamitou S, DuBow MS 2008. An examination of the bacteriophages and bacteria of the Namib desert. Journal of Microbiology 46 (4) 364-372

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12275-008-0007-4

Curtis BA 1985. Nests of the namib desert dune ant Camponotus detritus Emery. Insectes Sociaux 32 (3) 313-320

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02224920

Goudie A 2010. Namib Sand Sea: Large Dunes in an Ancient Desert. Geomorphological Landscapes of the World 163-169

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-3055-9_17

van Wyk G, van Laar A, Theron JM 2001. Yield potential of selected Eucalyptus genetic stock on the sandy soils of the South African Cape West Coast. Southern African Forestry Journal 191 9-20

Website link:http://www.ajol.info/index.php/sfjfs/article/view/4285

Fet V, Polis GA, Sissom WD 1998. Life in Sandy Deserts: The Scorpion Model. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (4) 609-622

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196397903864

Smith RMH, Mason TR 1998. Sedimentary environments and trace fossils of tertiary Oasis deposits in the Central Namib Desert, Namibia. Palaios 13 (6) 547-599

Website link:http://palaios.geoscienceworld.org/content/13/6/547.short

Williamson G 2011. Euphorbia caput-medusae L. - A journey from the foggy Cape of Storms to the arid windblasted sands of the Namib Desert (part 1). Euphorbia World 7 (2)

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Victor JE Acanthosicyos horridus Welw. Ex Hook.F..

Website link:http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/agpc/doc/GBASE/Safricadata/acanthorr.htm

Becker T, Getzin S 2000. The fairy circles of Kaokoland (North-West Namibia) - origin, distribution, and characteristics. Basic and Applied Ecology 1 (2) 149 - 159

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1439179104700201

Paige-Green P, Pinard M 2011. Use of a sedimentological technique for assessing the engineering performance of sands in roads. 18 - 21

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5270

Aranibar JN, Otter L, Macko SA, Feral CJW, Epstein HE, Dowty PR, Eckardt F, Shugart HH, Swap RJ 2004. Nitrogen cycling in the soil-plant system along precipitation gradient in the Kalahari sands. Global Change Biology 10 (3) 359 - 373

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1961