Aeolian landform
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Aeolian landforms, or Eolian landforms, are produced by either the erosive or depositive action of wind. These features may be built up from sand or snow, or eroded into rock, snow, or ice.
Sand blowing off a crest in the Kelso Dunes of the Mojave Desert, California.
Death Valley Mesquite Flats sand dunes.
Barchan dune schematic.
Asymmetrical wind ripples on aragonite sand from San Salvador Island in the Bahamas.
Ventifact
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A ventifact is a rock that has been abraded, pitted, etched, grooved, or polished by wind-driven sand or ice crystals. The word "Ventifact" is derived from the Latin word "Ventus" meaning 'wind'. Thes
Ventifact in Death Valley.
Wind-carved "mushroom" shaped rocks are the centerpiece of White Desert National Park, Egypt
Schist boulder pitted by sand blast near Palm Springs Station, Colorado Desert. Riverside County, California (Mendenhall, 1905)
Ventifact from the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California.