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- ancient ventifacts are preserved without being moved or disturbed, they may serve as a paleo-wind indicators. The wind direction at the time the ventifact formed...
- ventifacts. Sharp edges of ventifacts called Kanters are formed when two or more facets (planar surfaces) intersect. Open grooves in the ventifacts are...
- dreikanters is often difficult. Antarctica is a good location for finding such ventifacts since wind is usually the only active weathering agent. Many specimens...
- landforms include depressions and pans, Yardangs, inverted topography and ventifacts. No significant po****tions can survive in tropical deserts due to extreme...
- cobbles that are well polished by the wind and cut into ventifacts. The ****s are covered by ventifacts, suggesting the name, and are located just east of...
- cream. It has m****ive chalk rock formations that are textbook examples of ventifact and which have been created as a result of occasional sandstorm in the...
- (1989). Tucker, R.D.; Marvinney, R.G. (eds.). "Later-glacial dunes, ventifacts, and wind direction in west-central Maine". Maine Geological Survey Studies...
- Hinchi hill country (a plateau covered in spectacular mushroom-shaped ventifacts) Edward is told by his guide, Eduardo Echeverria, that the Hinchi use...
- striations which were previously reported as shatter cones were identified as ventifacts created by wind erosion in sandstones. These striations are surficial...
- occurs during winter. Wind is the most important weather factor, forming ventifacts and dunes among other structures; at Waw an Namus it mostly blows from...