<?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%">Nastos, P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evelpidou, N.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vassilopoulos, A.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Does climatic change in precipitation drive erosion and desertification in Naxos Island, Greece?</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Storms (EGU)</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">September</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nicosia - Cyprus</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;div&gt;In this paper we are examining the state of Naxos Island as far as erosion is concerned,&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;using precipitation indexes produced from daily precipitation totals and Geographical&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Information System (GIS) in order to develop an erosion risk model. Naxos Island belongs to the&amp;nbsp;Cycladic area and is situated at the central Aegean Sea, in Greece. The relief of the island is&amp;nbsp;mountainous, with a central mountain chain crossing it from north to south. The geology of&amp;nbsp;Naxos is characterised by a migmatite irruption, metamorphic rocks (schist, gneiss, marble), and&amp;nbsp;sedimentary rocks (Neogenic and Quaternary deposits). Tectonism of the area is low nowadays&amp;nbsp;but in the past geological time has played a major role defining the present morphology.&amp;nbsp;Although the mean annual precipitation appear to be low (~360.0 mm), the erosion&amp;nbsp;processes of the area are very intense, because of the intensive character of precipitation, the high&amp;nbsp;slope relief, the differential lithology and the absence of important land cover. The&amp;nbsp;aforementioned factors are the major contributing to the formation of the present denudated&amp;nbsp;morphology mainly because of the intense run off.&lt;/div&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>