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Deserts and Wind

The document discusses deserts and wind processes. It begins by outlining the objectives of explaining the distribution and causes of dry lands, summarizing geologic processes in arid climates, and discussing landscape evolution in the Basin and Range region. It then covers the types of deserts including subtropical, coastal, and polar deserts. The document also discusses weathering processes in deserts and sediment transport by wind, including wind erosion, features like ventifacts and yardangs, types of dunes, and loess deposits.

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Deserts and Wind

The document discusses deserts and wind processes. It begins by outlining the objectives of explaining the distribution and causes of dry lands, summarizing geologic processes in arid climates, and discussing landscape evolution in the Basin and Range region. It then covers the types of deserts including subtropical, coastal, and polar deserts. The document also discusses weathering processes in deserts and sediment transport by wind, including wind erosion, features like ventifacts and yardangs, types of dunes, and loess deposits.

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Deserts and Wind

Objectives:
• Explain the distribution and causes of dry lands;
• Summarize the geologic processes in arid and
semi-arid climate;
• Discuss the stages of landscape evolution in the
Basin and Range region of the western United
States;
• Identify the ways that wind transport
sediments;
• Describe the processes and features associated
with wind erosion and wind deposits;
What is a What do deserts
desert? look like?

What makes
a desert?

Where are
deserts
found?
Deserts of the World
Where and Why?
Where and Why?
Where and Why?
Where and Why?
Types of Deserts
Subtropical Deserts

Sahara of Northern Africa, Kalhari of Southern


Africa, and the Great Australian Desert
Coastal Deserts

Atacama Desert of coastal Peru, Namib


Desert of coastal South Africa.
Polar Deserts

Northern Greenland, and ice- free


areas of Antarctica
Weathering
Weathering
Weathering
Weathering
Weathering
Weathering
Weathering
Weathering
Sediment Transport
Wind Erosion
Wind Erosion
Wind Erosion

Ventifact
Wind Erosion

Yardangs
Types of Dunes
Loess

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