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Stabilization of dunes effected by the planting of marram grass (Ammophila arenaria), or rice grass, whose long roots bind the surface layers of sand and so hinder its removal by wind. A larger scale method of dealing with the same problem is by afforestation. (Source: BLYFRE)

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Teller JT, Rybak M, Rybak A, Lancaster N, Rutter N, Ward JD 1988. Diatoms and other fossil remains in calcareous lacustrine sediments of the northern Namib Sand Sea, South West Africa/Namibia. Geomorphological studies in Southern Africa : proceedings of the Symposium on the Geomorphology of Southern Africa, 8-11 April, 1988 159-174

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Diatoms and other fossil remains in calcareous lacustrine sediments of the northern Namib Sand Sea_1988.pdf	9.29 MB

Website link:http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1693325

Teller JT, Lancaster N 1986. History of sediments at Khommabes, central Namib Desert. Madoqua 14 (4) 409-420

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History of sediments at Khommabes.pdf	1.68 MB

Pickford M, Senut B, Dauphin Y 1995. Biostratigraphyof the Tsondab sandstone (Namibia) based on gigantic avian eggshells. Geobios 28 (1) 85-98

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016699595802053

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

Yeaton RI 1990. The structure and function of the Namib Dune grasslands: species interactions. Journal of Arid Environments 18 (3) 343-349

Website link:http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19910743775.html

Rasmussen K, Fog B, Madsen JE 2001. Desertification in reverse? Observations from northern Burkina Faso. Global Environmental Change 11 (4) 271-282

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937800100005X

Thomas DSG, O'Connor PW, Bateman MD, Shaw PA, Stokes S, Nash DJ 2000. Dune activity as a record of late Quaternary aridity in the Northern Kalahari: New evidence from northern Namibia interpreted in the context of regional arida and humid chronologies. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 156 243 - 259

Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0031-0182(99)00143-1

Bullard JE, Nash D 2000. Valley-marginal sand dunes in the south-west Kalahari: Their nature, classification and possible origins. Journal of Arid Environments 45 (4) 369 - 383

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196300906463

Lancaster N 1981. Paleoenvironmental implications of fixed dune systems in Southern Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 33 (4) 327-346

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018281900250

Thomas DSG, Knight M, Wiggs GFS 2005. Remobilization of southern African desert dune systems by twenty-first century global warming. Nature 435 1218 - 1221

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Besler H, Marker ME 1979. Namib sandstone: a distinct lithological unit. South African Journal of Geology 82 (1) 155-160

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Namib sandstone_a distinct lithological unit.pdf	1.37 MB