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Wadzanai

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on: Jul 15, 2018
Explain how wind can be a significant intercontinental agent of erosion and deposition. What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

How does saltation by wind differ from that in streams? What will be an ideal response?


ebenov

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Reply #1 on: Jul 15, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Wind can lift silt- and clay-sized particles high into the atmosphere and transport this material large
distances.



Answer to Question 2

Saltation by wind is self-perpetuating and generally moves smaller particles.


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