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    name of the Greek god Aeolus, the keeper of the winds. Aeolian processes are those processes of erosion, transport, and deposition of sediments that...
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  • winds Aeolian or Aeolic order, an early order of Classical architecture Aeolian processes, eolian sedimentation, wind-generated geologic processes Eolian...
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    Sediments are most often transported by water (fluvial processes), but also wind (aeolian processes) and glaciers. Beach sands and river channel deposits...
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    reworked by fluvial processes tends to have more poorly sorted sediment as compared to sediment sorted by only Aeolian processes because loess particles...
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  • brother of Dorus, Xuthus and Amphictyon. Aeolian landforms are formed when wind moves sediment (see aeolian processes). Sediment particles move when they are...
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    depends on the shape of the sediment. These commonly form in fluvial and aeolian depositional environments, and are a signifier of the lower part of the...
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    Wind (redirect from Aeolian activity)
    damaged or destroyed. Winds can shape landforms, via a variety of aeolian processes such as the formation of fertile soils, for example loess, and by...
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    published in 2002 indicates that they are more likely a result of aeolian processes. In 1990, Captain Ruben Lianza of the Argentine Air Force, an amateur...
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    Sediment transport within the Interior Plains occurs primarily by aeolian and fluvial processes. Due to climate change, the average temperature of the Interior...
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    Saltation layers can also form in avalanches.[citation needed] Aeolian landform Aeolian processes Bagnold formula Saltation (biology) Saltatory conduction The...
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    Geomorphology (category Geological processes)
    processes that shape landscapes, and geologic processes that cause tectonic uplift and subsidence, and shape the coastal geography. Surface processes...
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  • planets. Aeolian research spans a broad array of disciplines and may include the study of aeolian processes and associated aeolian landforms, aeolian deposits...
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  • Oregon wine region Eola, Texas Lake Eola, Orlando, Florida Aeolian processes, the process of wind activity End of Life Announcement is a milestone in...
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  • creating process, shape, elevation, slope, orientation, rock exposure, and soil type. Landforms organized by the processes that create them. Aeolian landform –...
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  • Aeolian sound or Aeolian tone is sound that is produced by wind when it passes over or through objects. Historically, Aeolus was the Greek ruler of the...
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    consisting of a high rocky plateau where the sand has been removed by aeolian processes. Other landforms include plains largely covered by gravels and angular...
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    features and processes on Venus: Summary of Magellan results. Icarus 115: 399–420.; cited in Craddock, Robert A. (2012). "Aeolian processes on the terrestrial...
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    from the outskirts of Merzouga Camels used for tours into the erg Aeolian processes Blowout (geology) List of ergs Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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    geomorphological change on Earth and other planets (Greely & Iversen 1987). Aeolian processes involve wind eroding materials, such as exposed rock, and moving particles...
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    Dust (redirect from Aeolian dust)
    atmosphere that come from various sources such as soil lifted by wind (an aeolian process), volcanic eruptions, and pollution. Dust in homes is composed of about...
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    natural processes and human activities. Subsidence involves little or no horizontal movement, which distinguishes it from slope movement. Processes that...
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    Lag deposit (category Geological process stubs)
    deposition of material winnowed by physical action. Aeolian processes, fluvial processes, and tidal processes can remove the finer portion of a sedimentary...
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    Yardang (category Aeolian landforms)
    been observed in crystalline rocks such as schist and gneiss. Aeolian processes – Processes due to wind activity Barchan – Crescent-shaped dune Blowout –...
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    also looks at planetary volcanism and surface processes such as impact craters, fluvial and aeolian processes. The structures and compositions of the giant...
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    Ralph Bagnold (category Process geomorphologists)
    the field of Aeolian processes was the basis for the book The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, establishing the discipline of aeolian geomorphology...
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    the necessary space for the formation of the altiplano basin. Magmatic processes rooted in the asthenosphere might have contributed to uplift of the plateau...
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    Amazonian period has been dominated by impact crater formation and Aeolian processes with ongoing isolated volcanism occurring in the Tharsis region and...
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    deposition of new parent materials by flood as diluvium, aeolian processes which means by wind, slope processes as colluvium, mudflows, other means. Flooding or...
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    plays a part in several topics of technology and science, including: Aeolian processes Barchan Bulk cargo Concrete slump test Grade (slope) Mass wasting...
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    Dreikanters generally form in dry, arid environments from hard rocks. Aeolian processes – Processes due to wind activity Blowout (geomorphology) – Depressions in...
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