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- A shallow circular or elliptical depression in sand or dry soil formed by wind erosion. geotech.org
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- Deflation basins, called blowouts, are hollows formed by the removal of particles by wind. Blowouts are generally small, but may be up to several kilometers in diameter. - cartage.org
by - Slopes protected from the prevailing winds have had negligible wind erosion except in areas where severe erosion created deflation basins. These blowout basins are limited to small interfluve areas, a few square miles in size, which probably had a thick layer of loose, sand-size fissile-shale fragments that winds could erode. - Soil Science Society of America
by - Wind erosion removes and redistributes soil. Small blowout areas may be associated with adjacent areas of deposition at the base of plants or behind obstacles, such as rocks, shrubs, fence rows, and roadbanks. - United States Department of Agriculture
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- Erosão pelo vento com a retirada superficial de fragmentos mais finos.
Processo geológico de desbaste pelo vento de terrenos com sedimentos soltos, como campos de dunas, com uma taxa de remoção maior do que à de deposição ou redeposição, afetando preferencialmente as partículas menores e menos densas. Glossário Geológico Ilustrado - by Rafael Rogel
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- A implantação do deserto Botucatu, ciclo sedimentar final do preenchimento da Bacia do Paraná-Etendeka, iniciou-se por uma vasta superfície de deflação eólica que marcou o clímax da aridez desértica no interior desta Bacia, caracterizando um prolongado episódio de interrupção da sedimentação que vinha se desenvolvendo, associado a fenômenos de rearranjo da sua morfologia. - Serviço Geológico do Brasil
by Rafael Rogel - A área fossilífera de Toros-Menalla está localizada na Bacia do Chade intracratônica. Esta bacia compreende uma sub-bacia ao sul que inclui o atual lago Chade sob condições semi-áridas a úmidas e uma sub-bacia ao norte que forma a planície central do Chade, atualmente um deserto e sujeito a significativa deflação eólica. - Girafamania
by Rafael Rogel - 5. A alteração das rochas faz com que estas se desintegrem em fragmentos cada vez mais pequenos, aumentando
assim a capacidade de transporte dos pequenos detritos rochosos, o que aumenta a deflação eólica, ou seja, a erosão
eólica provocada pelo transporte, por acção do vento, de pequenos detritos rochosos e que se encontram soltos nas
rochas ou nos solos.
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- Zagłębienie powstałe w wyniku wywiewania piasków i pyłów ze znacznego obszaru Own research - by Jakub Szacki
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- żłobienia przez lodowce (niecka jęzorowa), wiatr (niecka deflacyjna) lub zsuwający się po stoku gruz skalny (niecka korozyjna), - onet.pl
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- Als Deflationswanne wird eine Vertiefung in der Landschaft bezeichnet, die durch einen regelmäßigen Wind entstanden ist (Deflation). Wikipedia - by Nicole Trebbin
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- Deflation oder Sandflucht ist der Vorgang der Auswehung von Lockermaterial durch den Wind (äolischer Transport). Der Vorgang wird durch fehlende Vegetation begünstigt. Hält der Prozess länger an, kann eine Deflationswanne entstehen. - Wikipedia
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- वायु के कटाव से रेत या सूखी मिट्टी में बना खोखला वृत्तीय या दीर्घवृत्तीय गढ्ढा. geotech.org - by JMeenakshi
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- सतह के उपर असंगठित तथा कोमल शैलों को पवन अपने अपवाहन या उडाव की क्रिया से प्रभावित करके उनके ढ़ीले कणों को उडा ले जाती हैं, जिस कारण अनेक छोटे-छोटे गर्तो का निर्माण होता हैं । धीरे-धीरे इन गर्तो का आकार और गहराई दोनो बडने लगते हैं । इनका आकार एक प्लेट की तरह होता हैं । संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका के ग्रेट प्लेन्स के लघु आकार वाली इन स्थलाक्र्तियों को बफैलो वालोस तथा मंगोलिया में पांग कियांग कहते हैं । - wikipedia
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