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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Swedish Geological Co 1990. Ground probing radar measurements at sand rivers Shashe-Maun and Shashe-Francistown. Draft final report to DWA.

Wilkinson MJ, Blaha JE, Noli D 1989. A new lagoon on the Namibia coast of South Africa (sic): A sandspit growth documented from STS-29 shuttle photography. Geocarto International 4 63 - 66

Website link:https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19900036242

Ward J, Seely M 1990. Dune sands, ocean currents and man: Namibia's dynamic coastline. October 12 - 17

Hockey PAR, Navarro RA, Kalejta B, Velasquez CR 1992. The riddle of the sands: Why are shorebird densities so high in southern estuaries. American Naturalist 140 961 - 979

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2462928

Mazor E 1982. Rain recharge in the Kalahari - A note on some approaches to the problem. Journal of Hydrology 55 (1-4) 137-144

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1694(82)90124-X

Moll E 2013. Keeping the Namib's sand sea at bay: feature. Veld and Flora 99 (4) 189-191

Website link:http://journals.co.za/content/veld/99/4/EJC145535

McKee ED 1982. Sedimentary structures in dunes of the Namib Desert, South West Africa.

Website link:https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/309/sedimentary-structures-in-dunes-of-the-namib

Wasiolka B, Jeltsch F, Henschel J, Blaum N 2010. Space use of the spotted sand lizard (Pedioplanis l. lineoocellata) under different degradation states. African Journal of Ecology 48 (1) 96-104

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2009.01085.x/abstract

Stone AEC, Bateman MD, Thomas DSG 2015. Rapid age assessment in the Namib Sand Sea using a portable luminescence reader. Quaternary Geochronology 30 (B) 134-140

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871101415000151

White K, Bullard J, Livingstone I, Moran L 2015. A morphometric comparison of the Namib and southwest Kalahari dunefields using ASTER GDEM data. Aeolian Research 19 (A) 87-95

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875963715000877

Stone A, Bateman MD, Thomas DSG 2016. Rapid assessment of Namib Sand Sea sediment chronologies? Testing a portable luminescence reader against full OSL dating. Quaternary International 404 (B) 200-201

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104061821501304X

Cooney R 1998. The Damaraland mole-rat: social life in the Kalahari. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 53 (2) 219-225

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00359199809520388#.VIlS_WctBHg

Laudien J, Brey T, Arntz WE 2001. Reproduction and recruitment patterns of the surf clam Donax serra (Bivalvia, Donacidae) on two Namibian sandy beaches. South African Journal of Marine Science 23 (1) 53-60

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/025776101784528980#.VH1uuGctBHg

Bally R 1987. The ecology of sandy beaches of the Benguela ecosystem. South African Journal of Marine Science 5 (1) 759-770

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/025776187784522685#.VHsbu2ctBHg

Carruthers VC, Passmore NI 1978. A note on Breviceps macrops Boulenger. The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa 18 (1) 13-15

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/04416651.1978.9650950#.VHgyXWctBHg

Nagy KA, Shemanski DR 2009. Observations on diet and seed digestion in a Sand Dune Lizard, Meroles anchietae. African Journal of Herpetology 58 (1) 39-43

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21564574.2009.9635579#.VHWKC2ctBHg

Wilkinson MJ, Blaha JE, Noli D 1989. A new lagoon on the Namibian coast of South Africa: Sand spit growth documented from STS‐29 shuttle photography. Geocarto International 4 (4) 63-66

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10106048909354235#.VGr9h1ItBHg

Göttsche F-M, Olesen F-S, Bork-Unkelbach A 2013. Validation of land surface temperature derived from MSG/SEVIRI with in situ measurements at Gobabeb, Namibia. International Journal of Remote Sensing (Special Issue: Third International Symposium on Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing) 34 (9-10) 3069-3083

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01431161.2012.716539#.VGm7YVItBHg

Jacobson N, Jacobson P, van Jaarsveld E, Jacobson K 2014. Field evidence from Namibia does not support the designation of Angolan and Namibian subspecies of Welwitschia mirabilis Hook. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa Published online: 28 Aug 2014

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2014.950187#.VGmzQFItBHg

Seely MK 1990. Patterns of plant establishment on a linear desert dune. Israel Journal of Botany 36 443-451

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0021213X.1990.10677167#.VGWxNVItBHg

Harmse JT 1985. Trend Surface Analysis of Aeolian Sand Movement on the Southwest African Coast. South African Geographical Journal 67 (1) 31-39

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03736245.1985.10559704#.VGR2L1ItBHg

Hellwig DHR 1988. Challenging the Namib dune sea. Journal of the Limnological Society of southern Africa 14 (1) 35-40

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03779688.1988.9632888#.VGIRzFItBHg

Livingstone I, Baas A, Bateman MD, Bristow C, Bryant RG, Bullard JE, Nield JM, Thomas DSG, White KH, Wiggs GFS 2014. A prospectus for future geomorphological investigation of the Namib Sand Sea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2014.936330#preview

Thomas DSG, Shaw PA 1993. The evolution and characteristics of the Kalahari, southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments (25) 97-108

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196383710451

Thomas DSG, Shaw PA 1993. The evolution and characteristics of the Kalahari, southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 25 (1) 97-108

Vermeesch P, Fenton CR, Kober F, Wiggs GFS, Bristow CS, Xu S 2010. Sand residence times of one million years in the Namib Sand Sea from cosmogenic nuclides.

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Berry H 1996. A grain of Namib sand. Namibia Environment 1 57-61

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A grain of Namib sand_1996.pdf	6.49 MB

2002. 2.13 The Kalahari and recent deserts - rivers.

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Sherman C, Marais E, Maggs-Kölling G, Adams J, Steinberger Y Abiotic and plant gender effects on the structure and function of soil microbial communities associated with Acanthosicyos horridus (Nara) in the Namibian sand-dune desert ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments (163) 50-58

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.01.009

Corbett I 2018. The Influence of the Benguela Low-Level Coastal Jet on the Architecture and Dynamics of Aeolian Transport Corridors in the Sperrgebiet, Namibia. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia (20) 9-58

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Benguela Low_Level Coastal Jet.pdf	6.92 MB

Hauwanga WN 2018. Vegetation-environment relations along an aridity gradient on Kalahari Sands in central Namibia.

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Vegetation_environment relations along an aridity gradient on Kalahari Sands in central Namibia.pdf	2.98 MB

McCarthy TS, Ellery WN 1995. Sedimentation on the distal reaches of the Okavango Fan, Botswana, and its nearing on calcrete and silcrete (Ganister) formation. Journal of Sedimentary Research A65 (1) 77 - 79

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Jäger P, Krehenwinkel H 2015. May gen. n. (Araneae: Sparassidae): A unique lineage from southern Africa supported by morphological and molecular features. African Invertebrates 56 (2) 365-392

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Cairncross B, Stanistreet IG, McCarthy TS, Ellery WN, Ellery K, Grobicki TSA 1988. Palaeochannels (stone-rolls) in coal seams: Modern analogues from fluvial deposits of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, southern Africa. Sedimentary Geology 57 107 - 118

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Thomas DSG 1987. Discrimination of depositional environments using sedimentary characteristics in the Mega Kalahari, central southern Africa. Desert Sediments: Ancient and Modern

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Hauwanga WN, McBenedict B, Strohbach BJ 2018. Trends of phanerophyte encroacher species along an aridity gradient on Kalahari sands, central Namibia. European Journal of Ecology 4 (2) 41-48

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Trends of phanerophyte encroacher species along an aridity gradient on Kalahari sands.pdf	648.21 KB

Marion Meyer JJ, Meyer AC, Meyer NL 2020. Sand circles in stony landscapes of Namibia are caused by large Euphorbia shrubs. South African Journal of Botany 130 25-29

Nghalipo E, Joubert D, Throop H, Groengroeft A 2019. The effect of fire history on soil nutrients and soil organic carbon in a semi-arid savanna woodland, central Namibia. African Journal of Range and Forage Science 36 (1) 9-16

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The effect of fire history on soil nutrients and soil organic carbon in a semi_arid savanna woodland_central Namibia.pdf	490.87 KB

Clarke BC 1992. Water and energy balance in the Namib sand-dune lizard, Angolosaurus skoogi.

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Porter JW, Muzila IL 1988. Aspects of swamp hydrology in the Okavango. Botswana Notes and Records 21 73-91

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Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40979840

Gumbricht T, McCarthy J, McCarthy TS 2000. Portraying the geophysiology of the Okavango Delta, Botswana.

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Portraying the geophysiology of the Okavango Delta_Botswana.pdf	220.06 KB

Tortoise Environmental Consultants (TEC) 2020. APP-00984: Environmental Management Plan for sand mining and brick making project.

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984_BID_Environmental Management Plan for sand mining and brick making project.pdf	306.42 KB
984_EMP_Environmental Management Plan for sand mining and brick making project.pdf	1.1 MB

Brind WG 1953. The Okavango Delta. Report on the 1951-1953 field surveys.

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Wang L, D’Odorico P, Ringrose S, Coetzee S, Macko SA 2007. Biogeochemistry of Kalahari sands. Journal of Arid Environments 71 (3) 259-279

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140196307000997

Hartemink AE, Huting J 2008. Land cover, extent, and properties of arenosols in southern Africa. Arid Land Research and Management 22 134-147

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Land cover extent and properties of arenosols in southern Africa.pdf	465.84 KB

Bertram S 2003. Late Quaternary sand ramps in south-western Namibia: Nature, origin and palaeoclimatological significance.

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Late Quaternary sand ramps in south_western Namibia.pdf	4.58 MB

Geo Pollution Technologies 2020. APP-001324: Environmental Scoping Assessment and Environmental Management Plan for the Sand Mining Operations of Colmon Mining CC, Windhoek.

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1324_EIA_Sand Mining Operations of Colmon Mining CC_Windhoek.pdf	3.82 MB
1324_EMP_Sand Mining Operations of Colmon Mining CC_Windhoek.pdf	644.28 KB
1324_Leasing Agreement_Sand Mining Operations of Colmon Mining CC_Windhoek.pdf	111.55 KB
1324_Public Consultation_Sand Mining Operations of Colmon Mining CC_Windhoek.pdf	3.43 MB
1324_Map_Sand Mining Operations of Colmon Mining CC_Windhoek.pdf	383.02 KB

2020. APP-001971: Sand mining activities at Andhimbo, Onipa Constituency, Oshikoto Region.

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1971_Proforma EC_Sand mining activities at Andhimbo_Onipa Constituency.pdf	14.76 MB

2020. APP-001970: Sand mining activities at Onawa, Okaku Constituency, Oshana Region.

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1970_Proforma EC_Sand mining activities at Onawa_Okaku Constituency.pdf	14.61 MB

Geo Pollution Technologies 2020. APP-001323: Environmental Scoping Assessment and Environmental Management Plan for the Sand and Stone Mining Operations of Kunene Building Supplies, Windhoek.

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1323_EIASR_Sand and Stone Mining Operations of Kunene Building Supplies_Windhoek.pdf	3.53 MB
1323_EMP_Sand and Stone Mining Operations of Kunene Building Supplies_Windhoek.pdf	599.83 KB
1323_Leasing Agreemnt_Sand and Stone Mining Operations of Kunene Building Supplies_Windhoek.pdf	158.12 KB
1323_Public Consultation_Sand and Stone Mining Operations of Kunene Building Supplies_Windhoek.pdf	3.43 MB
1323_Map_Sand and Stone Mining Operations of Kunene Building Supplies_Windhoek.pdf	388.42 KB