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Sand sheet

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Sand sheets are flat, gently undulating stretches of sand surfaced by grains too large to be carried by saltation. They make up about forty percent of all aeolian depositional surfaces.

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Sand sheet (Wikipedia)
  • In Discipline: Geomorphology, Lead paragraph
    Sand sheets are flat, gently undulating plots of sand surfaced by grains that may be too large for saltation
  • Caused By: Sedimentation, Lead paragraph
    They form approximately 40 percent of aeolian depositional surfaces
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