Activity

1.Niseroo
2.Flatedion
3.Rasionab
4.Toosedinip
5.Nudes
6. Scaalpend
 Answers
1.Erosion
2.Deflation
3.Abrasion
4.Deposition
5.Dunes
6.Landscape
 Wind
(their energy, Erosion, Transportation, and
depositional features and effects)

Prepared By: Ellen May G. Gutierrez

 What is wind?
 A natural movement of air of any velocity.
-Merriam Webster
 Act as an effective agent of erosion and
deposition in any climate as long as
sediments are loose and dry.
 How does wind erode

Wind is an efficient sorter of sediment.

Wind erosion produces many unusual features

 Wind Erosion

 A natural process that moves soil from one location to

Another by wind power.
 When the force of wind is exerted on a land surface,
the
the soil moves.
 Wind perform the work of erosion by at least two
different methods: Deflation and Abrasion.
 Abrasion

Wind becomes a powerful agent for rubbing and

abrading the rock surface when naturally
loaded with sand and dust particle.

it is the “sandblasting” effect on materials caused by the

impact with particles carried by the wind.
 Deflation

it is the removal of rock waste from the land by the

wind

blowout or deflation hollow is a depression excavated

by the wind in materials as sand and silt deposits easily
eroded because of a lack of the presence of adequate
vegetation which impedes deflation
Deflation Hollow---Blowout
Sedimentation Transport by
wind
 Wind erosion loads

Suspended load
• Suspended wind blown particles
• Consist primarily of silt or clay size particles and
if highly concentrated can result in dust storms
• Deposition of the suspended load can result in
large deposits of loess lacking layering or
stratification.
Dust Storms
Loess Deposits
 Wind Deposition

 When sediment is transported and deposited by wind

 These wind made deposits may ultimately take the
shape of landform that are commonly referred as
Aeoline deposits
 Types of Deposits
Home built into steep cliff of loess in central China
Loess
• A deposit of windblown silt composed of
unweathered angular grains of quartz, feldspar
and other minerals weakly cemented by calcite.
 Wind Deposition
Bed load
• Particles bounced along the ground
• Usually consist of sand and size particles
• Accumulation of the bed load forms desert
sand dunes which can migrate easily (active
dunes)
Active sand dunes
• Nature of active (unstable) dunes
 Dune profile
 Consists of a more gentle windward
slope
 Dune profile
Dunes
• These are mounds of loose sand grains piled up
by the wind
• Developed in areas with strong winds that are
generally blow in the same direction.
Shifting dunes
• Shift downward and can burry roads, airport
Runways, homes, etc.
Categories of active dunes
• Based on shape of dune in plain view.
• Barchan
• Crescent shaped with convex portion
facing
the wind direction
• Formed with a constant wind direction and
limited sand supply
 Barchan dunes
B. Nebraska Sand Hills, Nebraska
A. Great Sand Dune National Park, Southern Colorado
Transverse dunes
• Elongated perpendicular to the direction of wind
• Formed with constant direction of wind and
large supply of sand.
 longitudinal or seif
• Elongated in general direction of wind
• Formed with slightly different wind
directions and limited supply of sand.

Sahara Desert, Algeria

Star or complex
• Formed with variable wind direction
 Desert landscape and evolution
Alluvial fan
• Fan shaped deposit formed at the foot of
mountains in the desert valley or basin.
 Desert landscape and evolution
Bajada
• A bajada is an apron of sediment resulting
from a coalescence of alluvial fans.
 Desert landscape and evolution
Alluvial fans & Bajadas in Death Valley
Graben
 Desert landscape and evolution
Playa lake and playa
• A temporary shallow lake formed in the
central basin of a desert during a rare
abundant rainfall– a playa is the dry flat
lake bed that remains.
 Desert landscape and evolution
Inselberg
• An isolated erosional remnant present after
long term erosion of mountain areas which
are reduced to these bedrock knobs
elevated above the surrounding sediment
filled basin.
 Desert landscape and evolution
Pediment
• A carved gently sloping erosional surface
on the bedrock in a desert mountainous
area.
Stages of landscape in mountainous desert
regions
Inactive or stable dune (mostly non-desert)
Parabolic dune (foredune)
• Formed along coastlines of oceans or large
lakes
• Winds cause blowouts in sand resulting
Pismo Beach, in a
central California
crescent shape with the concave side facing
the prevailing wind direction.
 Summary
• Wind is air in motion and acts as an important agent of erosion
and deposition in any climate as long as sediments are loose and
dry
• Wind erosion is a natural process that moves soil from one
location to another by wind power. There are two methods
involved: Abrasion and Deflation
• Wind deposition is when sediment is transported and deposited
by wind. There are two types: Loess and Dunes
• Loess is a deposit of windblown silt while dunes are mounds of
loose sand grains piled up by the wind