yardangs

Japanese: yardangs
yardangs

...The former is an erosion process that occurs when wind-blown sand is blown against the bedrock, and the latter is a spalling process caused by fine unconsolidated material being blown away by the wind, but neither process forms large landforms. A typical example of landforms formed by wind abrasion are yardangs. Yardangs are elongated elevations separated by roughly parallel elongated depressions, and were named in Turkestan by S. Hedin (1903).

*Some of the terminology that mentions "yardangs" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…前者は風で飛ばされた砂が基盤に吹きつけられた時働く削剝作用であり,後者は細粒な未固結物が風に吹き飛ばされることによる剝離作用であるが,いずれも大きな地形は形成しない。ウィンド・アブレージョンにより形成される地形としてはヤルダンyardangsが代表的なものである。ヤルダンは,ほぼ平行する細長い凹地によって隔てられた細長い高まりをいい,S.ヘディンによりトルキスタンで命名された(1903)。…

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