Desert and Alpine Environments - Advances in Geomorphology and Palaeoclimatology Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Jürgen Hövermann Xiaoping YANG (ed.)

Date: 20 April 2002

YANG Xiaoping (ed.), 2002. Desert and Alpine Environments - Advances in Geomorphology and Palaeoclimatology. Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Jürgen Hövermann. China Ocean Press. 143 pp. ISBN 7-5027-5517-9. Contents: Horst Hagedorn: A lifetime for geomorphology, dedicated to Jürgen Hövermann for his 80th birthday; Dieter Jaekel : Storeys of aeolian relief in North Africa and China; Jürgen Runge: Morphographic analysis of inselbergs in northern Togo (Westafrica) using high resolution DEMs derived from aerial photographs; Anke Brötje and Frank Lehmkuhl: Vegetation monitoring in the Hexi corridor area (Gansu, China) using NOAA AVHRR satellite data; Guang Han, Monique Mainguet and Frédéric Dumay: Stepwise discriminant analysis (SDA): application to determinate the source of aeolian sand on the basis of heavy mineral analysis in Hulun-Beir Steppe, Northeast China; Georg Miehe, Sabine Miehe and W. Bernhard Dickore: Alpine deserts in High Asia; Mathias Kuhle: The glaciation of Tibet - Pacemaker of the Ice Ages; Georg Schulz: Remote sensing data and their use in updating thematic maps of Pleistocene climate elements and glaciation boundaries; Xiaoping Yang: Sedimentological studies of aeolian sands in Chinese deserts; Ingrid Stengel and Detlef Busche: Namibia’s oldest inselbergs ­ Exhumed landforms of a Late Proterozoic etchplain.

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