Book reviews: Pye, K. and Lancaster, N., editors, 1993: Aeolian sediments: ancient and modern. International Association of Sedimentologists, Special Publication 16. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 167 pp. £35.00 paper. ISBN: 0 632 03544 7
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Book reviewsPye, K. and Lancaster, N., editors, 1993: Aeolian sediments: ancient and modern. International Association of Sedimentologists, Special Publication 16. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 167 pp. £35.00 paper. ISBN: 0 632 03544 7 SAGE Publications, Inc.1995DOI: 10.1177/030913339501900116 Giles Wiggs University of Sheffield This volume contains a selection of papers presented at a symposium entitled 'Aeolian sediments, ancient and modern' held during the 13th International Sedimentological Congress at Not- tingham in 1990. It consists of ten contributions divided between two sections: modern and ancient aeolian environments. The six articles on modern environments range in scale from the physics of grain movement to the origins of sand-sea sediments. The section begins with a contribution from Willetts and McEwan who compare rates of particle dislodgement calculated from a numerical saltation model with those observed from tracer experiments conducted in a laboratory. The proceedings continue with three articles concerned with the measurement and monitoring of aeolian processes and systems. The first, by Burkinshaw and Rust, focuses on the dune scale and considers the aeolian dynamics of a reversing transverse dune in the Alexandria coastal dunefield in South Africa. This contribution confirms the difficulties posed in evaluating shear stress on active sand dunes. The