Mankind and Deserts 2

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2 Title Page Series EditorFrançoise Gaill

3 Copyright First published 2021 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms and licenses issued by the CLA. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms should be sent to the publishers at the undermentioned address: ISTE Ltd 27-37 St George’s Road London SW19 4EU UK www.iste.co.uk John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA www.wiley.com © ISTE Ltd 2021 The rights of Fernand Joly and Guilhem Bourrié to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Library of Congress Control Number: 2020949240 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1-78630-631-9

4 Foreword

5 Introduction: Water in Deserts I.1. Hydrology – wild water I.2. References

6 1 Water Falling onto Soil and the Effects It Produces1.1. The arrival of water 1.2. Weathering 1.3. Runoff 1.4. Geodynamic and geomorphological effects of runoff in arid zones 1.5. Groundwater 1.6. References

7 2 Temporary Water Bodies and Lakes 2.1. Water bodies 2.2. Lakes 2.3. The principal features of lakes in an arid zone 2.4. References

8 3 Hydrographic Networks 3.1. Endorrheism–arheism 3.2. The disruption of hydrographic networks 3.3. Allogenous rivers and streams 3.4. References

9 4 Salts in Deserts 4.1. The nature of the salts 4.2. The origin of salts and evaporite sequences 4.3. Evaporation of seawater 4.4. Evaporation of continental freshwater 4.5. Systems mixing surface water and deep water 4.6. Atmospheric origin of nitrate deposits 4.7. Mankind and salts 4.8. References

10 List of Authors

11 Index

12 End User License Agreement

1 Foreword A man in the desert: Fernand Joly Tademaït, Sahara, Algeria

2 Chapter 1Figure 1.1. Diagram summarizing weathering in arid conditions

3 Chapter 4Figure 4.1. The N’zirah palm grove in Algeria Downstream, the palm grove gives w...Figure 4.2. Ion chromatography in landscapes, according to Tardy (1969), modifie...Figure 4.3. Salt fields in the Sahara, Tegguiddan Tessoum, Niger. Salt is tradit...Figure 4.4. Camels being loaded to transport salt, Tegguiddan Tessoum, Niger (Ph...

1 Chapter 4Table 4.1. The major neutral saltsTable 4.2. Major basic and acidic salts

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2 Table of Contents

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4 Copyright First published 2021 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms and licenses issued by the CLA. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms should be sent to the publishers at the undermentioned address: ISTE Ltd 27-37 St George’s Road London SW19 4EU UK www.iste.co.uk John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA www.wiley.com © ISTE Ltd 2021 The rights of Fernand Joly and Guilhem Bourrié to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Library of Congress Control Number: 2020949240 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1-78630-631-9

5 Foreword

6 Introduction: Water in Deserts

7 Begin Reading

8 List of Authors

9 Index

10 End User License Agreement

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Series EditorFrançoise Gaill

Edited by

Fernand Joly

Guilhem Bourrié

First published 2021 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms and licenses issued by the CLA. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms should be sent to the publishers at the undermentioned address:

ISTE Ltd

27-37 St George’s Road

London SW19 4EU

UK

www.iste.co.uk

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

111 River Street

Hoboken, NJ 07030

USA

www.wiley.com

© ISTE Ltd 2021

The rights of Fernand Joly and Guilhem Bourrié to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020949240

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data