Bagnold, R.A. 1941: The physics of blown sand and desert dunes. London: Methuen
Abstract
Classics in physical geography revisitedBagnold, R.A. 1941: The physics of blown sand and desert dunes. London: Methuen SAGE Publications, Inc.1994DOI: 10.1177/030913339401800105 Haim Tsoar Ben-Gurion University of the Negev The modem study of geomorphology has its foundations in nineteenth-century Europe and it is natural and obvious that little attention was paid by the European landform scientists to aeolian processes of desert. Relatively little interest and inquisitiveness therefore, were shown in aeolian processes during the first half of the twentieth century. The several books and articles that were published on aeolian sand dunes during that period were merely descriptive and made no reference to the fundamental processes of aeolian sand transport and dynamics, and formation of aeolian bedforms. As a soldier, engineer and explorer, Bagnold possessed an inquisitive mind, and was the first to change the study of aeolian sand transport and sand dunes from descriptive to processes orientated. By being neither a scientist according to formal standards, nor a professional geomorphologist, Bagnold had the advantage of studying the processes of blown sand and desert dunes with an open mind, uninhibited by any traditional ideas. The result is a book that combines unique field observations in remote desert areas, with