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Rock that has been eroded by wind-driven sand or ice crystals
A ventifact (also wind-faceted stone, windkanter) is a rock that has been abraded, pitted, etched, grooved, or polished by wind-driven sand or ice crystals
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ventifacts. Sharp edges of ventifacts called Kanters are formed when two or more facets (planar surfaces) intersect. Open grooves in the ventifacts are
Places of interest in the Death Valley area
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Type of rock
A dreikanter is a type of ventifact that typically forms in desert or periglacial environments due to the abrasive action of blowing sand. Dreikanters
Dreikanter
Geographic feature in Antarctica
cobbles that are well polished by the wind and cut into ventifacts. The knobs are covered by ventifacts, suggesting the name, and are located just east of
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Snow-free valleys in Antarctica
A basalt ventifact from the Dry Valleys
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Rock formation in Sur Lípez Province, Bolivia
Árbol de Piedra ("stone tree") is an isolated ventifact rock formation in the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve of Sur Lípez Province, Bolivia
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Mushroom-shaped rock formation
Valley, Russia Aeolian processes Hoodoo (geology) Precarious boulder Ventifact The Facts on File. Earth Science Handbook Ciudad Encantada - Visitor information
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during a snowstorm Tukulan – Land forms in Yakutia, Russian Federation Ventifact – Rock that has been eroded by wind-driven sand or ice crystals Yardang –
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Streamlined aeolian landform
Sandhill – Type of ecological community or xeric wildfire-maintained ecosystem Ventifact – Rock that has been eroded by wind-driven sand or ice crystals Desert
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Type of desert earth surface
rock instead of sand Saltation (geology) – Particle transport by fluids Ventifact – Rock that has been eroded by wind-driven sand or ice crystals "Hamada
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1980 film by Ken Russell
Hinchi hill country (a plateau covered in spectacular mushroom-shaped ventifacts), Edward is told by his guide, Eduardo Echeverria, that the Hinchi use
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American Antarctic base
antarctica (a soft coral) growing in the water near McMurdo A basalt ventifact from the McMurdo Dry Valleys to the west MAXIS (MeV Auroral X-ray Imaging
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Major escarpment in the Allegheny Mountains
Pottsville conglomerate atop the Allegheny Front showing ventifact (wind) etching, Bear Rocks, Dolly Sods, West Virginia
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Type of desert
landforms include depressions and pans, Yardangs, inverted topography and ventifacts. No significant populations can survive in tropical deserts due to extreme
Tropical_desert
Depression in New Valley Governorate, Egypt
cream. It has massive chalk rock formations that are textbook examples of ventifact and which have been created as a result of occasional sandstorm in the
Farafra,_Egypt
Landforms produced by action of the wind
Hematite rich ventifact from Windy Gap, Wyoming with extensive polishing by wind.
Aeolian_landform
Rock on Mars
for mugearite at Mugeary on the island of Skye. The Jake M rock is a ventifact with a volcanic fabric. Its pyramidal shape was formed by eolian drifted
Jake_Matijevic_(rock)
Pair of geological features in Libya
striations which were previously reported as shatter cones were identified as ventifacts created by wind erosion in sandstones. These striations are surficial
Arkenu_structures
U.S. wilderness area in West Virginia
A rock formation on Bear Rocks showing ventifact etching due to the high winds present.[citation needed]
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Virginia), a mountain located in southwestern Roanoke County, Virginia Ventifact Knobs, minor knobs located just east of Lake Bonney in Taylor Valley,
List_of_geographical_knobs
Reserve in Potosí, Bolivia
Árbol de Piedra ("Stone Tree"), an unusual rock formation, about 7 meters high, a ventifact carved by wind-blown sand in the Eduardo Avaroa Reserve.
Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve
Eduardo_Avaroa_Andean_Fauna_National_Reserve
Geology of fourth planet from the Sun
Opportunity has documented abundant aeolian sandstones on its traverse. Ventifacts, like Jake Matijevic (rock), are another aeolian landform on the Martian
Geology_of_Mars
Genus of problematic fossil
cup-like tips of Diskagma. Taking into account various features such as ventifacts, the concentration of carbon-13 in the rock and other geological features
Thuchomyces
Cape at the northernmost point of the island of Taiwan
Fuguijiao Park surrounds the headland. It includes a rocky beach with ventifacts (wind-shaped rocks) and lush tropical vegetation. There is a walking trail
Cape_Fugui
cirques, igneous intrusions, ring dikes, salt domes, geologic domes, ventifacts, tuff rings, forest rings, and others. Conversely, an impact crater may
List of possible impact structures on Earth
List_of_possible_impact_structures_on_Earth
Mountain range in Antarctica
weathering has yielded soils in some areas, while wind erosion has produced ventifacts at Mount Moses. Volcanic glass found in the Pine Island Glacier probably
Hudson_Mountains
Tourist attraction in Freeport, Maine, United States
(1989). Tucker, R.D.; Marvinney, R.G. (eds.). "Later-glacial dunes, ventifacts, and wind direction in west-central Maine". Maine Geological Survey Studies
Desert_of_Maine
Canadian record producer
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Siegfried_Meier
Processes due to wind activity
environments but geologically insignificant. Polished or faceted surfaces called ventifacts are rare, requiring abundant sand, powerful winds, and a lack of vegetation
Aeolian_processes
American photographer
glacial striations that record millions of years of snow accumulation, and ventifacts formed by ongoing intense winds. The book's foreword was written by Elisabeth
Diane_Tuft
Volcano in Libya
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
Waw_an_Namus
Geologic formation in Niger
consists of barchanoid shaped lenses of conglomeratic sandstone with ventifacts. These facies are indicatived of deposition under arid conditions, with
Moradi_Formation
Caldera in Catamarca Province, Argentina
ripples. Additional aeolian landforms in the region are known and include ventifacts and so-called "aeolian rat tails"; these are small structures which form
Cerro_Blanco_(volcano)
Glacial landscapes in Central Europe
and silt away due to the lack of a layer of vegetation. The presence of ventifacts, dunes and loess is thus typical of Old Drift areas. Young Drift morainic
Old_and_Young_Drift
Protected science area in Antarctica
nature and extremely vulnerable, such as the ice-core pyramid and the ventifact. These glacial-geological features have not only important scientific
Antarctic Specially Protected Area
Antarctic_Specially_Protected_Area
2015 bibliography on aeolian processes
(geology) Dune Dust devil Dust storm Haboob Loess Saltation (geology) Ventifact Yardang Warren, A.; Gill, T.E.; Stout, J.E. (2020), Bibliography of Aeolian
Bibliography of Aeolian Research
Bibliography_of_Aeolian_Research
American poet and essayist
Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense (Ugly Duckling Press, 2008), Ventifacts (Omnidawn Press, 2012), Hum (Dikembe Press, 2014), Atalanta: an Anatomy
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