PROVENANCE OF KARAKUM DESERT SAND (TURKMENISTAN): LITHIC-RICH OROGENIC SIGNATURE OF CENTRAL ASIAN DUNE FIELDS

PROVENANCE OF KARAKUM DESERT SAND (TURKMENISTAN): LITHIC-RICH OROGENIC SIGNATURE OF CENTRAL ASIAN DUNE FIELDS

Major deserts do not necessarily consist of eolian dunes as quartz-rich as those of the Great Nafud, Rub’ al Khali, Sahara, and Mega-Kalahari sand seas accumulated in anorogenic settings of Arabia and Africa. The Karakum dune field of Turkmenistan is one of the several examples of central Asian dese...

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Main Authors: EDUARDO GARZANTI, MOHAMMAD R. GHASSEMI, MARA LIMONTA, ALBERTO RESENTINI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2018-12-01
Series:Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia
Subjects:
provenance of modern sand
heavy minerals
karakum desert
amu darya river
central asia dune fields
fluvial feeder systems of eolian sand seas.
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