School of Geography and the Environment

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Selected Publications (2007)

42 publications listed

• Anderson, D.E., Goudie, A.S. and Parker, A.G. (2007) Global Environments Through the Quaternary: Exploring Environmental Change. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp. 392. ISBN: 978-0-19-874226-5.
• Arnold, L.J., Bailey, R.M., Tucker, G.E. (2007) Statistical treatment of fluvial dose distributions from southern Colorado arroyo deposits. Quaternary Geochronology, 2(1-4): 162-167.
• Baddock, M., Livingstone, I. and Wiggs, G.F.S. (2007) The geomorphological significance of airflow patterns in transverse dune interdunes. Geomorphology, 87(4): 322-336.
• Boardman, J. (2007) Soil erosion: the challenge of assessing variation through space and time. In, Goudie, A.S. and Kalvoda, J. (eds.) Soil erosion: the challenge of assessing variation through space and time. Nakladatelsti P3K, Prague. pp. 205-220. ISBN: 978-80-903584-6-1.
• Bourke, M. and Viles, H.A. (2007) A Photographic Atlas of Rock Breakdown features in Geomorphic Environments. Planetary Science Institute, Tucson. pp. 79.
• Brncic, T.M., Willis, K.J., Harris, D.J. and Washington, R. (2007) Culture or climate? The relative influences of past processes on the composition of the lowland Congo rainforest. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 362(1478): 229-242.
• Bull, P.A. with Morgan, R.M. (2007) Forensic Geoscience and Crime detection. Identification, interpretation and presentation in forensic geoscience. Minerva Medicolegal, 127(2): 73-89.
• Bull, P.A. with Morgan, R.M. (2007) Sediment Fingerprints: A forensic technique using quartz sand grains. A Response. Science and Justice, 47(3): 141-144.
• Burrough, S.L., Thomas, D.S.G., Shaw, P.A. and Bailey, R.M. (2007) Multiphase Quaternary highstands at Lake Ngami, Kalahari, northern Botswana. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 253(3-4): 280-299.
• Chase, B., Thomas, D.S.G., Bateman, M.D. and Meadows, M.E. (2007) Late Quaternary dune development along the western margin of South Africa and its relationship to paleoclimatic changes inferred from the marine record. Pages, 15(2): 26-27.
• Chase, B.M. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2007) Multiphase late Quaternary aeolian sediment accumulation in western South Africa: Timing and relationship to palaeoclimatic changes inferred from the marine record. Quaternary International, 166(1): 29-41.
• Engelstaedter, S. and Washington, R. (2007) Atmospheric controls on the annual cycle of North African dust. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 112. D03103.
• Engelstaedter, S. and Washington, R. (2007) Temporal controls on global dust emissions: the role of surface gustiness. Geophysical Research Letters, 34(L15805).
• Foster, I.D.L., Boardman, J. and Keay-Bright, J. (2007) Sediment tracing and environmental history for two small catchments, Karoo uplands, South Africa. Geomorphology, 90(1-2): 126-143.
• Gillies, J.A., Nickling, W.G. and King, J. (2007) Shear stress partitioning in the atmospheric inertial sublayer. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 122(2): 367-396.
• Goudie, A.S. and Heslop, E. (2007) Sodium nitrate deposits and surface efflorescences. Chapter 12 in, Nash, D.J. and McLaren, S.J. (eds.) Geochemical Sediments and Landscapes. Blackwells Publishing. 488 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4051-2519-2.
• Grine, F.E., Bailey, R.M., Harvati, K., Nathan, R.P., Morris, A.G., Henderson, G.M., Ribot, I. and Pike, A.W.G. (2007) Late Pleistocene human skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa and modern human origins. Science, 315(5809): 226-339.
• Keay-Bright, J. and Boardman, J. (2007) The influence of land management on soil erosion in the Sneeuberg mountains, central Karoo, South Africa. Land Degradation and Development, 18(4): 423-439.
• Lai, Z., Wintle, A.G. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2007) Rates of dust deposition between 50 ka and 20 ka revealed by OSL dating at Yuanbao on the Chinese loess plateau. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 248(3-4): 431-439.
• Lemos, M.C., Boyd, E., Tompkins, E.L., Osbahr, H. and Liverman, D. (2007) Developing adaptation and adapting development. Ecology and Society, 12(2).
• Livingstone, I., Wiggs, G.F.S. and Weaver, C.M. (2007) Geomorphology of desert sand dunes: A review of recent progress. Earth Science Reviews, 80(4): 239-257.
• Morgan, R.M. and Bull, P.A. (2007) The philosophy, nature and practice of forensic sediment analysis. Progress in Physical Geography, 31(1): 43-58.
• Morgan, R.M. and Bull, P.A. (2007) The use of grain size distribution analysis of sediments and soils in forensic enquiry. Progress in Physical Geography, 47(3): 125-135.
• Okereke, C., Mann, P., Osbahr, H., Muller, B. and Ebeling, J. (2007) Assessment of key negotiating issues at Nairobi climate COP/MOP and what it means for the future of the climate regime. Tyndall Centre for Climate Research.
• Osbahr, H., Boyd, E. and Ericksen, P.J. (2007) Resilience, Realities and Research in African Environments. University of Oxford 24 pp.
• Parker, A.G. and Goudie, A.S. (2007) Development of the Bronze Age landscape in the southeastern Arabian Gulf: new evidence from a buried shell midden in the eastern extremity of the Rub' al-Khali desert, Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah, U.A.E. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 18(2): 132-138.
• Rueff, H. (2007) Mapping the population density of registered refugees in UNRWA's camps. Report to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Mandate coordinated by the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva.
• Rueff, H. and Viaro, A. (2007) Assessment on housing conditions of Palestine refugees. Report to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Mandate coordinated by the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva.
• Stainforth, D.A., Downing, T.E., Washington, R., Lopez, A. and New, M. (2007) Issues in the interpretation of climate model ensembles to inform decisions. Philosophical Transactions Royal Society, A, 365(1857): 2163-2177.
• Stevens, T., Thomas, D.S.G., Armitage, S.J., Lunn, H.R. and Lu, H. (2007) Reinterpreting climate proxy records from late Quaternary Chinese loess: a detailed OSL investigation. Earth-Science Reviews, 80(1-2): 111-136.
• Stringer, L.C., Thomas, D.S.G. and Twyman, C. (2007) From global politics to local land users: applying the United Nations Convention to combat desertification in Swaziland. The Geographical Journal,, 173(2): 129-142.
• Stringer, L.C., Twyman, C. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2007) Combating land degradation through participatory means: the case of Swaziland. Ambio, 36(5): 387-393.
• Stringer, L.C., Twyman, C. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2007) Learning to reduce degredation on Swaziland's arable land: enhancing understandings of Striga asiatica. Land Degredation and Development, 18(2): 163-177.
• Telfer, M.W. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2007) Late Quaternary linear dune accumulation and chronostratigraphy of the southwestern Kalahari: implications for aeolian palaeoclimatic reconstructions and predictions of future dynamics. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26(19-21): 2617-2630.
• Thomas, D.S.G., Twyman, C., Osbahr, H. and Hewitson, B. (2007) Adaptation to climate change and variability: farmer responses to intra-seasonal precipitation trends in South Africa. Climatic Change, 83(3): 301-322.
• Thornbush, M.J. and Viles, H.A. (2007) Simulation of the dissolution of weathered versus unweathered limestone in carbonic acid solutions of varying strength. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 32(6): 841-852.
• Thornbush. M.J. and Viles, H.A. (2007) Photo-based decay mapping of replaced stone blocks on the boundary wall of Worcester College, Oxford. In, Prikryl, R. and Smith, B.J. (eds.) Building stone decay: from diagnosis to conservation. Geological Society Special Publication, 271. . pp. 69-75.
• Todd, M.C., Washington, R., Martins, J.V., Dubovik, O., Lizcano, G., M'Bainayel, S. and Engelstaedter, S. (2007) Mineral dust emission from the Bodélé Depression, northern Chad, during BoDex 2005. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112(D06207).
• Viles, H.A. and Goudie, A.S. (2007) Rapid salt weathering in the coastal Namib desert: implications for landscape development. Geomorphology, 85(1-2): 49-62.
• Viles, H.A. and Wood, C. (2007) Green walls? Integrated laboratory and field testing fo the effectiveness of soft wall capping in conserving ruins. In, Prikryl, R. and Smith, B.J. (eds.) Building stone decay: from diagnosis to conservation. Geological Society Special Publication, 271. . pp. 309-322.
• Viles, H.A., Taylor, M.P., Nicoll, K.N. and Neumann, S. (2007) Facies evidence of hydroclimatic regime shifts in tufa depositional sequences from the arid Naukluft Mountains, Namibia. Sedimentary Geology, 195(1-2): 39-53.
• Warren, A., Chappell, A., Todd, M.C., Bristow, C., Drake, N., Engelstaedter, S., Martins, V., M'bainayel, S. and Washington, R. (2007) Dust-raising in the dustiest place on earth. Geomorphology, 92(1-2): 25-37.