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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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    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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    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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  • winds Aeolian or Aeolic order, an early order of Classical architecture Aeolian processes, eolian sedimentation, wind-generated geologic processes Eolian...
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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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    Saltation layers can also form in avalanches.[citation needed] Aeolian landform Aeolian processes Bagnold formula Saltation (biology) Saltatory conduction The...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    natural processes and human activities. Subsidence involves little or no horizontal movement, which distinguishes it from slope movement. Processes that...
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    which is located in the heights of Tehran, the capital of Iran Aeolian processes – Processes due to wind activity Biorhexistasy – Theory explaining the formation...
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    Dune (category Aeolian landforms)
    ripples are deposits that are less than 3 cm tall. A draa is a very large aeolian landform, with a length of several kilometers and a height of tens to hundreds...
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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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    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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    these processes is kinetic sieving. It is also observed in aeolian processes, such as in pyroclastic fall deposits. These deposition processes are examples...
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    feature created by glaciation Dune – Hill of loose sand built by aeolian processes or the flow of water Hill Country – Region of TexasPages displaying...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • tsunami, they argued that the structures are more consistent with aeolian processes. Other Earth scientists also dispute the tsunami origin of the chevrons...
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