THE PROBLEM OF THE ARID INSELBERGS FORMATION
https://doi.org/10.15356/0435-4281-2014-2-
Abstract
The history of the inselbergs investigation is given. The features of the different inselberg types (structural, cut from the plain surface, and exhumed from under the ancient crust of the weathering) are described. Deflation in the arid plains manifests in perpetual movement of the thin sand cover of different coarseness along the predominant wind directions. In this connection the author suggests the term “deflation denudation” – the process resulting in the formation of the deflation-denudation peneplain. Deflation manifests unevenly, with pulsations, its most intensiveness corresponds to the periods of strong solar activity changes, for instance, Mounder Minimum of the Little Ice Age. The depressions surrounding the inselbergs were discovered and described, as well as the human induced transformations of the inselbergs.
About the Author
V. P. Chichagov
Institute of Geography RAS, Moscow
Russian Federation
Laboratory of geomorphology
Russian Federation
Laboratory of geomorphology
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