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Sand, Wind, and War

Memoirs of a Desert Explorer

By: Ralph A. Bagnold

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Sand, Wind, and War

Memoirs of a Desert Explorer

By: Ralph A. Bagnold

Sand, Wind, and War records the work, travels and adventures of one of the last of the great British explorers, a man who served in both world wars and carved out a special niche in science through his studies of desert sands. Ralph Alger Bagnold was born in 1896 into a military family and educated as an engineer. Posted to Egypt in 1926, he was one of a group of officers who adapted Model T Fords to desert travel and in 1932 made the first east-west crossing—6,000 miles—of the Libyan desert. Bagnold established such a name for himself that in World War II he was again posted to Egypt where he founded and trained the Long Range Desert Group that was to confound the German and Italian armies. Bagnold’s fascination with the desert included curiosity over the formation of dunes, and beginning in 1935 he conducted wind tunnel experiments with sand that led to the book The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes. Eventually, he was to see his findings called on by NASA to interpret data on the sands of Mars. He devoted subsequent research to particle flow in fluids, and also served as a consultant to Middle Eastern governments concerned with the interference of sand flow in oil drilling. Sand, Wind, and War is the life story of a man who not only helped shape events in one part of the world but also contributed to our understanding of it. It is a significant benchmark not only in the history of science, but also in the annals of adventure.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816547734

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Sand, Wind, and War

Memoirs of a Desert Explorer

By: Ralph A. Bagnold

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The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes

By: Ralph Bagnold

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The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes

By: Ralph Bagnold

THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM THIS book results from an attempt to explain on a basis of experimental physics some of the many strange phenomena produced by the natural movement of sand over the dry land of the Earth. The subject is but one aspect of a far wider problem which is still very imperfectly grasped-the transport of solid particles of any kind by fluids in general. Here the difficulty has been, and still is, that no one branch of science has attempted to deal with the problem as a whole, or to co-ordinate the vast amount of piecemeal work by students of different outlook in many unrelated fields. The carriage of silt by rivers has received a great deal of attention from engineers. But owing to the difficulties of direct measurement, to the expense and labour of conducting full-scale experiments, and to a failure to find agreement as to the basic quantities upon which a theoretical edifice may be built, the published results are far from satisfactory. Little has emerged except empirical formulae; and these are rarely capable of reliable application to conditions other than those under which they were evolved. The drifting of snow is of direct interest to transport authorities in many countries, to meteorologists engaged in the study of rainfall, to ski-runners and to mountaineers. Yet no means has been found whereby the precipitation can be gauged, or the rate of drift related to the strength of the wind.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400956827

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9789400956827

Dune Worlds

How Windblown Sand Shapes Planetary Landscapes

By: Ralph D. Lorenz,James R. Zimbelman

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Dune Worlds

How Windblown Sand Shapes Planetary Landscapes

By: Ralph D. Lorenz,James R. Zimbelman

This book describes how sand dunes work, why they are the way they are in different settings, and how they are being studied. Particular attention is paid to their formation and appearance elsewhere in the solar system. New developments in knowledge about dunes make for an interesting story – like the dunes themselves, dune science is dynamic – and the visual appeal of Aeolian geomorphology ensures that this is an attractive volume. The book is divided into 4 parts, the first of which introduces dunes as a planetary phenomenon, showing a landscape reflecting the balance of geological processes – volcanism, impact, tectonics, erosion, deposition of sediments. Dunes are then considered as emergent dynamical systems: the interaction of sand and wind conspires to generate very characteristic and reproducible shapes. Analogies are given with other emergent structures such as patterned ground before the influence of dunes on desert peoples and infrastructure is studied, together with their use as forensic climatological indicators. Dune Physics is looked at with regard to the mechanics of sand, the physics of wind, saltation – interaction of sand and air – dunes versus ripples and transverse Aeolian ridges, the classification of dune morphology and the sources and sinks of sand. Dune Trafficability considers soil mechanics, effects on mobility on Earth, Mars and elsewhere. In the second part, Earth, Mars, Titan and other moons and planets are examined, beginning with a survey of the major deserts and dunefields on Earth. The authors then turn to Mars and its environment, sediment type, dune stratigraphy, sediment source and sinks and the association of dunes with topographic features. Titan follows - its thick, cold atmosphere, methane dampness, low gravity, morphology – interaction with topography and the implications of dunes for climate and winds. Dunes elsewhere conclude this part. There are few dunefields on Venus, but there is a .possibility of Aeolian transport on Triton and volcanic-related windstreaks on Io.

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311

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540897259

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9783540897255

Foundation Engineering

By: Ralph B. Peck,Walter E. Hanson,Thomas H. Thornburn

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Foundation Engineering

By: Ralph B. Peck,Walter E. Hanson,Thomas H. Thornburn

Covers properties of subsurface materials, types of foundations and methods of construction, selection of foundation type and basis for design, and design of foundations and earth-retaining structures.

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550

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471675857

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9780471675853

Guns and Snowshoes

By: Ralph Bonehill

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Guns and Snowshoes

By: Ralph Bonehill

The boys experience winter season at their camp, encountering bears, deer, and ducks and celebrating a remarkable Christmas. They face the difficulties of blizzards, the howls of wolves, and a mysterious stranger. As they enter the new year, a mystery unfolds with unbelievable realizations. Can they survive?

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210

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1st World Publishing

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1421831023

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9781421831022

The Boy Scouts Patrol

By: Ralph Victor

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The Boy Scouts Patrol

By: Ralph Victor

I think - began a tall, slenderly-built lad of sixteen, speaking in a somewhat indolent way; then suddenly he paused to look down through the trees to where the river gleamed below. "What's on your mind now, Rand?" his companion queried, a boy of about the same age, nearly as tall, but more stoutly built, and as light in complexion as the other was dark. The two were standing at the top of the road that wound down the side of the mountain from the town of Creston, which was perched, like the nest of some great bird, in a hollow of the Palisades.

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162

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1st World Publishing

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1421819066

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9781421819068

Lifting Titan's Veil

Exploring the Giant Moon of Saturn

By: Ralph Lorenz,Jacqueline Mitton

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Lifting Titan's Veil

Exploring the Giant Moon of Saturn

By: Ralph Lorenz,Jacqueline Mitton

A revealing account of the second largest moon in our solar system.

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300

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Cambridge University Press

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0521793483

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The Physics of Sediment Transport by Wind and Water

A Collection of Hallmark Papers

By: Ralph Alger Bagnold

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The Physics of Sediment Transport by Wind and Water

A Collection of Hallmark Papers

By: Ralph Alger Bagnold

A Collection of Hallmark Papers by R.A. Bagnold

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Amer Society of Civil Engineers

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0872626652

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The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes

By: Ralph Bagnold

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By: Ralph Bagnold

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Sand, Wind, and War

Sand, Wind, and War

Sand, Wind, and War

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The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes

The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes

Dune Worlds

Dune Worlds

Foundation Engineering

Foundation Engineering

Guns and Snowshoes

Guns and Snowshoes

The Boy Scouts Patrol

The Boy Scouts Patrol

Lifting Titan's Veil

Lifting Titan's Veil

The Physics of Sediment Transport by Wind and Water

The Physics of Sediment Transport by Wind and Water

The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes

The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes

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