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Back Matter (PDF) Index Page numbers in italic denote figures. Page numbers in bold denote tables. Letters a, b, or f following a page number indicate references to appendices, textboxes and foldouts respectively. abrasion, effect on construction materials 55, 57 aridity 61–62 Abu Dhabi, sabkha 83 causes 11–12 Abu Sueir, subgrade moisture content 361, 363 classification 3,8–9 acid, excretion by lichen 36 definition 8 admixtures, concrete 328, 332, 334b Aridity Index (AI) 3, 9,61 adobe 336, 388 armourstone 307–310, 311b, 369 adsorption 272 arsenic, pollution 29 aeolian bedforms 49–50 asphalt 325–328, 326b, 365 classification 50–51 ASTER aeolian hazards 55, 57–58 DEM 178 aeolian processes 4, 7, 20, 25b, 45–50, 148 imagery 173, 176, 177 see also wind erosion Atacama Desert 1f, 3, 8,10 aeolian soils 147, 149 fog and dew 12, 17, 21 aerosol index method 57–58 mine pollution 29 aerosols, salt 77 nitrate enrichment 44–45 aggregate 301 origin 24 concrete and mortar 328–331 rainfall 13 crushed rock 316–317, 320–321 atmosphere, stability, and aridity 11 extraction and processing 320–321, 322b attapulgite see palygorskite properties 314, 316 Atterberg limits, testing 220, 222, 223, 239ab, 324 in road building 323, 324 augering, rotary 202, 203, 206, 207 salts 313–316, 318, 319 Australia sampling 211–212, 313–314 palaeoclimate 25 sand and gravel 310–316 silcrete 44 evaluation 313–314, 318 AVHRR imagery 173, 176b, 177 processing 313, 314–316 Awash River 59, 131 sources 101, 103, 103, 226 sampling 216, 217–218b, 313–314 backing wind shift 46 storage 312–313, 335 badlands 4, 65, 67, 70, 72, 119 air-masses, global 46–47 Bahrain Surface Materials Resources Survey 186, albedo 12 187–188 and wind variation 47 field mapping 180, 188 alcrete 150 bajada 68, 100 algae, weathering 36–37 ballistic impact, grains 47, 49, 55, 57 algal mats 79, 81 bankfull discharge 63,67 Alice Springs, Australia, climate data 19 Barcelona model 274, 275, 277 alkali aggregate reactions (AAR) 328, 329b, 330b barchans 51, 53, 54, 55 alkali-carbonate reaction (ACR) 312b, 330b basalt plateau 109 alkali-silica reaction (ASR) 330b, 331 baseflow 63 allogenic rivers 58–59, 60 basin, enclosed see bolson alluvium, groundwater calcrete 43–44 basin and range model 101, 102 Almanzora River Dam 80 beach stone 149, 302, 302b, 367, 368 alveoles 40 bedforms, aeolian 49–50 amphitheatres, valley head 39–40 classification 50–51 anhydrite 76 bedload, mobile 62–63, 65 dissolution 285–286 Benguela Current 12 hydration 64, 68, 82, 284–285 bentonite, drilling fluid 208b sabkha 82 bitumen, in road building 322, 323, 325–328, Antofagasta, Chile, climate data 20 364–365 aquifers 340 Blackhawk landslide 137 Arabian Desert 1f, 3,10 blasting, aggregate production 320, 321b landforms 14 blowouts 52–53, 56, 56 arid deserts 10, 11 bolson 133 rainfall variability 18 bonding soil and rock types 145 partially saturated soils 276 aridisols 148 sand and gravel 288b, 289–290 412 INDEX bores 62 standards 331, 332, 333 boring storage 335 cable percussion 203, 206, 207, 208, 230 cementation 226, 276 rotary wash 203, 208 alluvial fan deposits 287b soft-ground 202, 203, 206, 208 beach stone 302 breakwaters 308, 309, 310b, 310 road building materials 324 bricks salt precipitation and dissolution 285 adobe 338, 388 sand 286b fired 336, 338 and slope stability 348 materials 338–339 soil, mechanics 289–294 sand-lime 332, 334, 336 terminology 151 bridges see also bonding channel migration 71–72 Central Arizona Long-term Ecological Research channel scour 63, 66, 372 Project (CALERP), GIS and remote Bryce Canyon, Utah, gullies 126 sensing 185 building materials see engineering, natural materials Chalbi Desert 1f, 3 building stone 303–307 channels, stream 73 standards 305, 306 braided 67, 73 technical assessment 305–306 ephemeral 8, 67, 372, 373 buttes 117, 123 migration 71–72, 78, 79 soil types 146–147, 149 meandering 67, 73 chemical weathering 36 Cairo, climate data 16 salt 35, 387 calcarenite Chihuahuan Desert 1f, 3,10 bonding 289–290 chloride 7 excavation 349 in aggregate 319, 324, 327b calcite 76 concrete mix water 341 concretions 88,89 effect on reinforced concrete 359 calcium carbonate 35, 87–88 influence on test results 219, 222 and soil strength 292, 294 in reclamation fill 370b calcium sulphate 35 chloride content, testing 244ab, 245ab dissolution 285–286 chlorite 4, 36 hydration 284–285 brick-making 338 sea water 87 Cholistan Desert 1f, 3 and soil strength 292, 294 Chott el Gharsa salt lake 8 and swell potential 281–282 chromatography 89 calcrete 4, 22, 42–44, 88, 112, 149–150 cladding stone 303–304b, 303–307, 307b as aggregate 319, 320 clay as building material 302 natural piping 64 engineering characterization and classification, slaking 34 existing schemes 154, 155 swelling potential 280–282 floodwater 43 Oman 355, 356b groundwater 43 clay minerals, shrink/swell cycles 34, 36 road building 324, 326b, 364–365 climate caliche, sodium nitrate 44 control on environment 13–22 California bearing ratio (CBR) 203, 220, 222, 235, 238, engineering significance of 7 242ab, 243ab, 244ab influence on hydrology 60–62 gypsiferous soils 302, 362, 364 climate change 28,29 road building 323, 324, 361 see also palaeoclimate change canker, duricrust 150, 154 coastal development 367–370 canyon and scarp model 101, 102 marine environment 369–370 capillary fringe 34, 43, 64, 75, 270 coastal environment, sabkha 79, 81–83 engineering impact 22, 374 coastlines evaporites 34–35 armourstone 307–310, 311b, 369 capillary rise 22, 64, 270, 375 sabkha 79, 81–83 carbonation, concrete 387 soil types 146, 148–149 case hardening 41, 111, 146, 148 collapse tafoni 39 desert soils 72–73, 231, 274, 278–280, 353–355 caves 37, 38, 113 salt dissolution 222–223 see also tafoni Colorado Desert 1f, 3 celestine 76, 82 comminution, salt weathering 36, 81 cement compaction, low moisture content 350–352 Portland 328, 329b, 331–332, 333 compaction tests 220, 222, 235, 242ab INDEX 413 compression diurnal wind variation 47 partially saturated soil behaviour 273–275 dune field 52 sand 260–261, 262 evaporites 82, 85, 134 concrete debris flows 68, 74 admixtures 332, 334b, 385 soil types 146, 148 aggregate 328–331 deflation 53, 55 alkali aggregate reactions (AAR) 312b, 328, 329b, 330b sabkha 81 carbonation 387 deflation hollows 54–55, 121 curing 341, 385–386 deforestation, and groundwater salinity 29 durability 387 degradation engineering design and construction 384–387 aggregate 312 mixing and placing 385–386 armourstone 311b environmental problems 7, 384–385, 387 by vehicles 58, 390 production 320b salt weathering 348–349, 350 reinforcement 332 demolition, waste 339–340 salt attack 35, 38, 328, 332 density, tests 234, 243ab, 244ab salt attack 328, 329b, 358–359, 387 deposition, grain 49 salt weathering 69, 73, 86, 387 see also landforms, depositional standards 328 desalination 28, 341 storage 335, 385 desert glaze 145, 146, 148 water quality 341 desert landscape classification, Earth systems model concretions, and groundwater flow rate 88,89 104, 105–141 conductivity, hydraulic, testing 253ab desert models 78, 97, 99, 100–105, 231, 393f cone penetration testing (CPT) 205, 209, 212, 237 Cooke 101, 103 sand 267, 268 Fookes and Knill 12, 78, 99, 100–101 zone III 228 Goudie and Wilkinson 101, 102 see also soil assessment cone penetrometer (SACP) landscape development model 104 consequences, hazard and risk 169b rock and soil types 143–144, 146–147, 393f consolidation tests 235 ‘desert roses’ 81–82 construction 347–390 Desert Working Party (DWP) 1, 2b, 5 desert ground model 97 desert zones 13, 78, 99, 100, 101, 103, 393f ground investigation methods 201–211, 232, 233 investigation techniques 223–231 hazards 97–99 Zone I 13, 78, 100, 223, 224, 226–227 fluvial 68–73 Zone II 13, 78, 100, 224, 227–228 geochemical 75–76, 82, 201 Zone III 13, 78, 100, 224–225, 228–229 wind-related 55, 57–58 Zone IV 13, 78, 100, 225, 229–231 natural materials see engineering, natural materials soil and rock types 144, 145, 146–147 traditional 387–388 desertification 29 waste 339–340 deserts continental margins 12 definition 1–2, 8–10 active 12, 14 distribution 1f, 3, 10, 11 passive 12, 14 environments 7–29 continentality, and aridity 11, 12 controls on diversity 12–24 continuous dynamic probing 238 extent and location 7 copper, pollution 29 past climate change 24–25 coral 149 stoney see pavements, desert dredging 368 design Corona imagery 173, 177 engineering 267–268, 347–390 cratons 12, 14 see also front-end engineering design (FEED) creep, surface 48, 49, 375 desk study 159, 167–170 critical state line (CSL) 261, 262, 263–264, 266, 267–268 benefits table 168, 171 critical states, sand 261, 263–267 field validation 179 crouˆte de nappe 44 geological model 170, 179 crystallization, salts 35, 75–76 planning and undertaking 168–169, 171 currents see ocean currents reporting 169–170, 185–186 sources of information 169 dams, sediment loading 72, 80 uncertainties 167 Danakil Desert 1f, 3 dewfall 16, 17, 36 Darb el Arba’in Desert 1f, 3 diagraphy probing 209, 210, 211 dayas 37 digital elevation models (DEM) 177, 178, 182 Death Valley digital surface model (DSM) 183, 184 alluvial fan 36, 135 dimension stone 303–304b, 303–307 bolson 133 technical assessment 305–306 414 INDEX dissection, of terrain 4 seif 164 see also etchplains soil types 145, 147, 149 dissolution, salts 285–287, 289, 356, 357b star 51, 53, 54, 55, 164 Dog’s Bay Sand topographically influenced 53 compression 260, 261, 262 transverse 8, 51, 53, 54, 55 critical states 261, 263, 265, 266 wind variability and sand availability 52, 55 dolines 37, 42 zibar 53 dolocrete 42, 43,
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