Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction in Arid Lands

Ashok Kumar Singhvi is a Professor in the Earth Science Division at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India. A physicist turned geoscientist, he specializes now in geochronology and paleoclimatology in arid environments. He has authored and edited a book on the Thar Desert, edited five international conference proceedings and has contributed over 90 research publications. Edward Derbyshire is Research Professor in Quaternary Science in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, England, and Honorary Professor of the Academy of Sciences of Gansu Province, China. He is a holder of the Antarctic Service Medal of the United States, and the back Award of the Royal Geographical Society. He has authored or edited more than 200 scientific articles, including 6 books and several conference volumes.

• Foreword 1. Landforms, Geomorphic Processes and Climatic Change in Drylands 2. Remote Sensing for Palaeoenvironmental Studies in Drylands 3. Soil Micromorphology as a Technique for Reconstructing Paleoenvironmental Change 4. Soil and Soil Forming Processes under Increasing Aridity 5. Semi-Arid/ Arid Zone Calcretes: A Review 6. Dunes as Indicators of Climatic Change 7. Arid-Zone Rivers as Indicators of Climate Change 8. Arid Zone Palaeoenvironmental Records from Cave Spelelothems 9. Present Flora as an Indicator of Palaeoclimate: Examples from the Arabian Peninsula 10. Anthracology (Charcoal Analysis) in Investigation of Desert Margin Shifts: A Case study of Southern Sahara 11. Radiocarbon Dating of Arid Zone Deposits.