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A wide, open, comparatively barren tract of land with few forms of life and little rainfall. (Source: MGH)

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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

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Senut B, Pickford M, Segalen L 2009. Neogene desertification of Africa. Comptes Rendus Geoscience 341 (8-9) 591-602

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631071309000790

Fujioka T, Chappell J 2011. Desert landscape processes on a timescale of millions of years, probed by cosmogenic nuclides. Aeolian Research 3 (2) 157-164

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Vogel S, Müller-Doblies U 2011. Desert geophytes under dew and fog: The "curly-whirlies" of Namaqualand (South Africa). Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 206 (1) 3-31

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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

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Marsh AC 1987. Thermal responses and temperature tolerance of a dessert* ant-lion larva. Journal of Thermal Biology 12 (4) 295-300

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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

Amit R, Enzel Y, Grodek T, Crouvi O, Porat N, Ayalon A 2010. The role of rare rainstorms in the formation of calcic soil horizons on alluvial surfaces in extreme deserts. Quaternary Research 74 (2) 177-178

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de Villiers PS, Hanrahan SA 1991. Sperm competition in the Namib Desert beetle, Onymacris unguicularis. Journal of Insect Physiology 37 (1) 7-8

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Lichtenthaler H 1998. Die Wurzel, das neue Organ, ihre Bedeutung fur das Leben von Welwitschia mirabilis und anderer Arten der Namib sowie von Arten angrenzender Gebiete. Journal of Plant Physiology 153 (1-2) 264

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Enders M, Schüle H 1993. Age identification of a Namib desert tenebrionid beetle. Journal of Arid Environments 24 (2) 211-214

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McClain E, Magnuson P, Warner SJ 1988. Behavioural fever in a Namib Desert tenebrionid beetle, Onymacris plana. Journal of Insect Physiology 34 (4) 279-284

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

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Stone A 2012. Dune generations in the east of the northern Namib Sand Sea. Quaternary International 279-280 471

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Fielden LJ, Perrin MR, Hickman GC 1990. Water metabolism in the Namib Desert Golden Mole, Eremitalpa granti namibensis (Chrysochloridae). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology 96 (1) 227-234

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Cowlishaw G 1997. Refuge use and predation risk in a desert baboon population. Animal Behaviour 54 (2) 241-253

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Stuut J-BW, Lamy F 2004. Climate variability at the southern boundaries of the Namib (southwestern Africa) and Atacama (northern Chile) coastal deserts during the last 120,000 yr. Quaternary Research 62 (3) 301-309

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Lancaster N 1983. Controls of Dune Morphology in the Namib Sand Sea. Developments in Sedimentology 38 261-289

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Senut B, Dauphin Y, Pickford M 1998. New avian remains from the Neogene of the Sperrgebiet (Namibia): Refinement of the avian biostratigraphy of Namib Desert aeolianites. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science 327 (9) 639-644

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van der Walteren FM, Dunai TJ 2001. Late Neogene passive margin denudation history—cosmogenic isotope measurements from the central Namib desert. Global and Planetary Change 30 (3-4) 271-307

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Hattingh J, Ganhao M, Naidu SG 1984. Haemolymph composition in Namib Desert tenebrionid beetles. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology 78 (3) 541-545

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Nicolson SW 1980. Water balance and osmoregulation in Onymacris plana, a tenebrionid beetle from the Namib desert. Journal of Insect Physiology 26 (5) 315-320

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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

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Owen JJ 2013. Hillslope Processes in Arid Environments. Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences Treatise on Geomorphology: Volume 7: Mountain and Hillslope Geomorphology 7 363-374

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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

Midgley GF, Thuiller W 2007. Potential vulnerability of Namaqualand plant diversity to anthropogenic climate change. Journal of Arid Environments 70 (4) 615-628

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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

Singletary SJ, Hanson RE, Martin MW, Crowley JL, Bowring SA, Key RM, Ramokate LV, Direng BB, Krole MA 2003. Geochronology of basement rocks in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana, and implications for regional Proterozoic tectonics. Precambrian Research 121 (1-2) 47-71

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301926802002012

Stringer LC, Dyer JC, Reed MS, Dougill AJ, Twyman C, Mkwambisi D 2009. Adaptations to climate change, drought and desertification: local insights to enhance policy in southern Africa. Environment: Science and Policy 12 (7) 748-765

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901109000604

Annegarn HJ, van Grieken RE, Bibby DM, von Blottnitz F 1983. Background aerosol composition in the namib desert, South West Africa (Namibia). Atmospheric Environment (1967) 17 (10) 2045-2053

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Nash DJ, Shaw PA 1998. Silica and carbonate relationships in silcrete-calcrete intergrade duricrusts from the Kalahari of Botswana and Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 27 (1) 11-25

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Mees F 2003. Salt mineral distribution patterns in soils of the Otjomongwa pan, Namibia. Catena 54 (3) 425-437

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Jacob J, Ward JD, Bluck BJ, Scholz RA, Frimmel HE 2006. Some observations on diamondiferous bedrock gully trapsites on Late Cainozoic, marine-cut platforms of the Sperrgebiet, Namibia. Ore Geology Reviews 28 (4) 493-506

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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

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Lancaster N 2013. Dune Fields / Low Latitudes. Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (Second Edition) 623-636

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van Heerden PDR, Swanepoel JW, Krüger GHJ 2007. Modulation of photosynthesis by drought in two desert scrub species exhibiting C3-mode CO2 assimilation. Environmental and Experimental Botany 61 (2) 124-136

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Liu M, van Wyk B-E, Tilney PM 2007. A revision of the genus Marlothiella (Apiaceae). South African Journal of Botany 73 (2) 208-213

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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

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Tsoar H 2013. Critical environments: sand dunes and climate change. Treatise on Geomorphology, 11: Aeolian Geomorphology 414-427

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Bourke MC, Goudie AS 2009. Varieties of barchan form in the Namib Desert and on Mars. Aeolian Research 1 (1-2) 45-54

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

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Krapf CBE, Stollhofen H, Stanistreet IG 2003. Contrasting styles of ephemeral river systems and their interaction with dunes of the Skeleton Coast erg (Namibia). Quaternary International 104 (1) 41-52

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Geyh MA, Heine K 2014. Several distinct wet periods since 420 ka in the Namib Desert inferred from U-series dates of speleothems. Quaternary Research In Press

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Seely M, Dirkx E, Hager C, Klintenberg P, Roberts C, von Oertzen D 2008. Advances in desertification and climate change research: are they accessible for application to enhance adaptive capacity?. Global and Planetary Change 64 (3-4) 236-243

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Webb JA, White S 2013. 6.31 Karst in Deserts. Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences - Treatise on Geomorphology 6 397-406

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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

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Diester-Haass L, Heine K, Rothe P, Schrader H 1988. Late Quaternary history of continental climate and the Benguela Current off South West Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 65 (1-2) 81-91

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Kartusch B, Kartusch A 2008. Stem anatomy of Acanthosicyos horridus (Cucurbitaceae). South African Journal of Botany 74 (4) 647-650

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Jacobson KM, Jacobson P, Miller OK 1999. The autecology of Battarrea stevenii in ephemeral rivers of southwestern Africa. Mycological Research 103 (1) 9-17

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Moser-Nørgaard PM, Denich M 2011. Influence of livestock on the regeneration of fodder trees along ephemeral rivers of Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 75 (4) 371-376

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