Yardang
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A yardang is a streamlined protuberance carved from bedrock or any consolidated or semiconsolidated material by the dual action of wind abrasion by dust and sand and deflation. Yardangs become elongat
A yardang near Meadow, Texas (33°19′16″N 102°29′42″W / 33.321°N 102.495°W / 33.321; -102.495) (USDA photo).
Yardangs in the Qaidam Desert, Qinghai Province, China.
Yardangs on water in the Usut Yardang Geological Park, Qinghai, China
Yardangs in Lucus Planum (Mars)
Aeolian processes
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Aeolian processes, also spelled eolian, pertain to wind activity in the study of geology and weather and specifically to the wind's ability to shape the surface of the Earth. Winds may erode, transpor
Yardang
…streamlined protuberance carved from bedrock or any consolidated or semiconsolidated material by the dual action of wind abrasion by dust and sand and deflation (the removal of loose material by wind turbulence). Yardangs become elongated features typically three or more times longer than wide, and when viewed…
Wind erosion of soil at the foot of Chimborazo, Ecuador
Sand blowing off a crest in the Kelso Dunes of the Mojave Desert, California
Dust blown by the wind from an Iowa field that was not planted, 1890.
Effects of wind erosion at Giza pyramid, May 1972