Field evidence for the initiation of isolated aeolian sand patches

Accepted/In Press date: 30 December 2022

e-pub ahead of print date: 9 January 2023

Published date: 28 February 2023

Additional Information: Funding Information: This work was funded by the TOAD (The Origin of Aeolian Dunes) project (funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, UK and National Science Foundation, USA; NE/R010196NSFGEO‐NERC, NSF‐GEO‐1829541, and NSF‐GEO‐1829513). Research was undertaken at GSD under a Scientific Research and Collection permit GRSA‐2018‐SCI‐004, and we are very grateful for support from A. Valdez and F. Bunch. For the Huab fieldwork, we acknowledge Gobabeb Namib Research Institute, J. Kazeurua, I. Matheus, L. Uahengo, MET and NCRST (permits 1913/2014; 2051/2015; 2168/2016, RPIV00022018). Data processing used the IRIDIS Southampton Computing Facility. J. M. Nield was supported by a Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas AM University, Michel T Halbouty Visiting Chair during the GSD field campaign. We thank B. Andreotti, C. Gadal, C. Narteau and TOAD project partners for useful discussions. We also thank Patrick Hesp and an anonymous reviewer for their careful reading of our manuscript and their insightful comments and suggestions. Funding Information: This work was funded by the TOAD (The Origin of Aeolian Dunes) project (funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, UK and National Science Foundation, USA; NE/R010196NSFGEO-NERC, NSF-GEO-1829541, and NSF-GEO-1829513). Research was undertaken at GSD under a Scientific Research and Collection permit GRSA-2018-SCI-004, and we are very grateful for support from A. Valdez and F. Bunch. For the Huab fieldwork, we acknowledge Gobabeb Namib Research Institute, J. Kazeurua, I. Matheus, L. Uahengo, MET and NCRST (permits 1913/2014; 2051/2015; 2168/2016, RPIV00022018). Data processing used the IRIDIS Southampton Computing Facility. J. M. Nield was supported by a Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas AM University, Michel T Halbouty Visiting Chair during the GSD field campaign. We thank B. Andreotti, C. Gadal, C. Narteau and TOAD project partners for useful discussions. We also thank Patrick Hesp and an anonymous reviewer for their careful reading of our manuscript and their insightful comments and suggestions. Publisher Copyright: © 2023. The Authors.

Local EPrints ID: 474136

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/474136

DOI: doi:10.1029/2022GL101553

ISSN: 1944-8007

PURE UUID: d3c44170-64be-4c73-87c6-5f8e43e4ea1b

ORCID for Joanna Nield: orcid.org/0000-0002-2657-0525

Date deposited: 14 Feb 2023 17:37

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