those in deserts of Earth. One erg was observed to be more than 930 miles (1,500 km) long. Dunes are a dominant landform on Titan. Approximately 15-20%...
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erg in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An erg is a unit of energy. Erg, Ergs or ERG may also refer to: Mikey Erg (born 1980), American musician Erg (comics)...
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orientation, rock exposure, and soil type. Landforms organized by the processes that create them. Aeolian landform – Landforms produced by action of the winds include:...
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Erg Chebbi (Arabic: عرق الشبي) is one of Morocco's several ergs – large seas of dunes formed by wind-blown sand. It is located on the far western edge...
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Hill of loose sand built by aeolian processes or the flow of water Erg (landform) – Broad area of desert covered with wind-swept sand Loess – Sediment...
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Dune (redirect from Dune (landform))
A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune...
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Erg Chigaga (or Erg Chegaga, Berber: ⴻⵔⴳ ⵛⴳⵉⴳⴰ, Arabic: عرق شقاق or Edaya el-Hamra, Arabic: الضاية الحمراء) is the largest and still untouched of the...
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The Grand Erg Oriental (English: 'Great Eastern Sand Sea') is a large erg or "field of sand dunes" in the Sahara Desert. Situated for the most part in...
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Aeolian processes (redirect from Eolian landforms)
This formation records at least 12 erg sequences bounded by regional deflation supersurfaces. Aeolian landforms preserved in the formation range from...
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The Erg Chech (Arabic: عرق شاش), is a large erg in southwestern Algeria and northern Mali. It is an almost uninhabited part of the greater Sahara Desert...
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Erg Iguidi (Arabic: عرق إقيدي), is a large erg in the area of Tindouf in southwestern Algeria, extending into northern Mali and Mauritania. The Erg Iguidi...
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Mauritania, erg Amatlich is a vast dune barrier of small dimensions (130 km x 5 km to 8 km) trapped between the mountains of the Adrar plateau. The erg, stretching...
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Elixir is in all European languages today. erg (landform), hamada (landform), sabkha (landform), wadi (landform) عرق ʿerq [ʕirq] (listen), sandy desert landscape...
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The Erg Admer is a large erg or field of sand dunes in the Sahara Desert. Situated in the Illizi Province west of the oasis town of Djanet in south-eastern...
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Desert pavement (redirect from Reg (landform))
Africa, a vast stony desert plain is known as reg. This is in contrast with erg, which refers to a sandy desert area. Aeolian processes – Processes due to...
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(2017). "Dune-slope activity due to frost and wind throughout the north polar erg, Mars". Geological Society Special Publication. 467: 95–114. doi:10.1144/SP467...
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Hamada (redirect from Hamada and erg desert)
boulders rather than as highland plateaus. Hamadas exist in contrast to ergs, which are large areas of shifting sand dunes. Hammada, a genus of flowering...
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Aoukar (redirect from Erg Aoukar)
Aoukar or Erg Aoukar (Arabic: عوكر) is a geological depression area of south eastern Mauritania. It is located between Kiffa and Néma, south of the Tagant...
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Grand Erg Occidental (Arabic: العرق الغربي الكبير, al-ʿIrq al-Gharbī al-Kabīr), (also known as the Western Sand Sea) is the second largest erg in northern...
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The Issaouane Erg (also called Issaouane-N-Irrararene) is an approximately 38,000 km2 erg (sand sea) in Algeria's portion of the Sahara desert, located...
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Gran Desierto de Altar (category Ergs)
in the State of Sonora, in northwest Mexico. It includes the only active erg dune region in North America. The desert extends across much of the northern...
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Rig-e Jenn (category Ergs)
The Rig-e Jenn (Persian: ریگ جن ‘Dune of the Jinn’) is a vast area of sand dunes in the middle of Dasht-e Kavir, Iran's central desert in the border region...
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Rebiana Sand Sea (category Ergs of Africa)
The Rabyanah Sand Sea, Rabyanah, is a sand desert region spanning approximately 65,000 km2 in southeastern Libya. The area of the Rabyanah Sand Sea is...
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Calanshio Sand Sea (category Ergs of Africa)
000 km². The erg, an area of actively shifting dunes, extends from Jaghbub and Jalo in the north to Kufra in the south, a distance of 500km. The erg lies parallel...
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Devils Playground (category Ergs)
The Devils Playground is a large sandy region in the Mojave Desert in the state of California in the United States. Dunes and salt flats stretch for approximately...
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Algodones Dunes (category Ergs)
The Algodones Dunes is a large sand dune field, or erg, located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of California, near the border with Arizona...
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El Djouf (category Ergs of Africa)
El Djouf (Arabic: الجوف) is a desert, an arid natural region of sand dunes and rock salt which covers northeastern Mauritania and part of northwestern...
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Chuska Mountains (category Landforms of San Juan County, New Mexico)
it appears to be a remnant of a huge Oligocene sand sea, the Chuska erg. The erg hypothesis is consistent with major exhumation of the central Colorado...
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personifications of nature; they are typically tied to a specific place, landform, or tree, and are usually depicted as maidens. Because of their association...
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The landforms of Earth are generally divided into physiographic regions, consisting of physiographic provinces, which in turn consist of physiographic...
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