Saltation

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Saltation
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Real Saltation
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Deflation

• Most popular form of wind erosion

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Desert pavement
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How Desert pavement forms..

• Heavier sediments are left behind because the
  wind cannot pick them up and the rest of the
  sediments compact to make the pavement

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Ventifacts

• Rocks smoothed by abrasion by wind-blown sediment

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Zion National Park
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Types of sand dunes

• Barchan- crescent shaped

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Types of Sand Dunes

• Parabolic also crescent shaped, but open side
  faces the wind

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Transverse dunes
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Dune formation