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Saline lake - playa, salinas, sabkha
Reg = stony desert == gobi (ChinaMmongolia)
Desert pavement & rock varnish
Ergs = sandy desert hamada @= barren rock
Desert Mts - SWUS & Mex, Chile/ Peru, Australia, Sahara
Bajada - bahada, coalescing fans at mt. front
Pediments all piedmont land forms (slopes cut on bedrock)
(Pediment similar to alluvial fan)
Sheet floods - shallow but broad
Pediment to mt. slope gets buried bolson (temporary inler mountain basin)
Savanna - insulberg - steep sided rocky hills - isolated wash plans of rivers (infiltrate to
h20 table)
Sediment less than .2 mm
Saltation - Bounce in bed load.
Surface creep - dune movement
Desert pediment = bare rock Hamada stony - reg (gobi) sandy erg
Wind erosion - deflation - sand removal - abrasion
Ventifacts - rock scrapes
Yardangs - tear drop wind aorasion - quebradas - gullies
Blowouts - exposed (buffalo wallows)
Deposition - Wind ripples (small) dunes (large)
Compound dunes - draas
(4-6m - down wind)
Sand shadows - lee
Sand drift - in lee of dune
Sand Dune - Slip face to lee
Windward
Dunes
Whaleback (zebra) longitudinal - similar to linear
Barchand - U shaped
Barchanoid ridge -
Transverse -111
Blowout -
Dome
Parabolic
Linear
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