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Dunes and Drumlins

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Geomorphological Fluid Mechanics

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Dunes are landforms which occur when a turbulent fluid flow occurs above an erodible substrate. The most obvious example occurs in deserts, where the wind blows sand into a wide variety of different shapes (see Chap. 17 for many illustration of such dunes). Linear dunes, or ‘seifs’, are ridges which form parallel to the prevailing wind direction, while transverse dunes are ridges perpendicular to the wind. A variety of other shapes can occur, amongst them star dunes and barchan dunes.

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Fowler, A.C. (2001). Dunes and Drumlins. In: Balmforth, N.J., Provenzale, A. (eds) Geomorphological Fluid Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 582. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45670-8_18

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