<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Taysun, A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ozden, N.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sahin Taysun, K.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Yilmaz, G.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vassilopoulos, A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evelpidou, N.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The causes, evolusion and environmental evaluation of sand dunes activity in Manisa-Akselendi plain.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ulusal Kuraklik ve Collesme Sempoozyumu</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Konya, Turkey</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;div&gt;Inland sand dune activities that set an interesting example in terms of wind&amp;nbsp;erosion and accummulation in the Aegean Region under the conditions of the&amp;nbsp;Mediterranean climate, and that appear on lands where the annual rainfall is about 600&amp;nbsp;mm, exist on the Akselendi Plain, Manisa. Until today, some studies have been&amp;nbsp;conducted on the Akselendi Plain, which has become famous worldwide for that matter.&amp;nbsp;Besides, there is an ongoing Bilateral Project with GREECE, supported by TUBITAK,&amp;nbsp;some results of which will be explained in this paper. Besides the erosive winds&amp;nbsp;blowing on the Akselendi Plain, the existence of mostly coarse textured alluvial&amp;nbsp;deposits, the first of which is the large bed of Kum Çayı, moreover, the misuse of&amp;nbsp;agricultural and non-agricultural areas have caused wind erosion, and they also caused&amp;nbsp;the sediments, moving from the bed of Kum Çayı by deflation, to give great damages&amp;nbsp;along with the sand dune invasion in the south of the bed. This activity has especially&amp;nbsp;increased in the last fifty years. The views that we reached on the subject of wind&amp;nbsp;erosion on this area and the causes, evolution and effects of sand dunes will be reported&amp;nbsp;in the paper. Moreover, information will be given on the problems and on the status and&amp;nbsp;efficiency of the precautions that have been taken, besides on the precautions that will&amp;nbsp;need to be taken in the short term and long term. Again, the continued sand plunder&amp;nbsp;because of the incorrect applications, and the effects of that on the sand dune formation will be explained. Also, some interesting formations that we determined in the last&amp;nbsp;studies we conducted and that can set an example in this scientific area will be&amp;nbsp;submitted to the world of science.&lt;/div&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>