Abstract
THIS book forms the third part (being paged continuously) of the sixteenth volume of the Transactions of the Königlichen Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften. The questions propounded by the author for investigation are the following:—What meteorological forces are active in the deserts? What is their destructive effect on the rocks? What are the ultimate results of this? Is the present sculpturing of the deserts due to the influence of other forces than those which are now active? How can fossil deserts be recognized? The last is left unanswered; the others are considered in the light of information collected from books of travel, and from the author's own studies during two visits to the Egyptian desert.
Die Denudation in der Wüste und ihre geologische Bedeutung: Untersuchungen über die Bildung der Sedimente in den Ägyptischen Wüsten.
Von Johannes Walther, a. o. Professor an der Universität, Jena. (Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1891.)
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B., T. Dry Denudation. Nature 43, 556 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043556a0
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