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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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