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...

ventifacts. Sharp edges of ventifacts called Kanters are formed when two or more facets (planar surfaces) intersect. Open grooves in the ventifacts are...

A dreikanter is a type of ventifact that typically forms in desert or periglacial environments due to the abrasive action of blowing sand. Dreikanters...

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...

Valley, Russia Aeolian processes Hoodoo (geology) Precarious boulder Ventifact The Facts on File. Earth Science Handbook Ciudad Encantada - Visitor information...

Sandhill – Type of ecological community or xeric wildfire-maintained ecosystem Ventifact – Rock that has been eroded by wind-driven sand or ice crystals Desert...

Sandhill – Type of ecological community or xeric wildfire-maintained ecosystem Ventifact – Rock that has been eroded by wind-driven sand or ice crystals Yardang –...

rock instead of sand Saltation (geology) – Particle transport by fluids Ventifact – Rock that has been eroded by wind-driven sand or ice crystals "Hamada...

A rock formation on Bear Rocks showing ventifact etching due to the high winds present.[citation needed]...

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...

Hinchi hill country (a plateau covered in spectacular mushroom-shaped ventifacts) Edward is told by his guide, Eduardo Echeverria, that the Hinchi use...

Hematite rich ventifact from Windy Gap, Wyoming with extensive polishing by wind....

nature and extremely vulnerable, such as the ice-core pyramid and the ventifact. These glacial-geological features have not only important scientific...

Virginia), a mountain located in southwestern Roanoke County, Virginia Ventifact Knobs, minor knobs located just east of Lake Bonney in Taylor Valley,...

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....

Opportunity has documented abundant aeolian sandstones on its traverse. Ventifacts, like Jake Matijevic (rock), are another aeolian landform on the Martian...

landforms include depressions and pans, Yardangs, inverted topography and ventifacts. No significant populations can survive in tropical deserts due to extreme...

Pottsville conglomerate atop the Allegheny Front showing ventifact (wind) etching, Bear Rocks, Dolly Sods, West Virginia...

environments but geologically insignificant. Polished or faceted surfaces called ventifacts are rare, requiring abundant sand, powerful winds, and a lack of vegetation...

(1989). Tucker, R.D.; Marvinney, R.G. (eds.). "Later-glacial dunes, ventifacts, and wind direction in west-central Maine". Maine Geological Survey Studies...

cirques, igneous intrusions, ring dikes, salt domes, geologic domes, ventifacts, tuff rings, forest rings, and others. Conversely, an impact crater may...

striations which were previously reported as shatter cones were identified as ventifacts created by wind erosion in sandstones. These striations are surficial...

(geology) Dune Dust devil Dust storm Haboob Loess Saltation (geology) Ventifact Yardang Warren, A.; Gill, T.E.; Stout, J.E. (2020), Bibliography of Aeolian...

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...

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...

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...

ripples. Additional aeolian landforms in the region are known and include ventifacts and so-called "aeolian rat tails"; these are small structures which form...

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...

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Fuguijiao Park surrounds the headland. It includes a rocky beach with ventifacts (wind-shaped rocks) and lush tropical vegetation. There is a walking trail...