serir

Japanese: serir
serir

…The landforms formed by deflation include desert pavements and blowouts. The former are formed when sand and dust are blown away by the wind, leaving behind large pebbles and boulders, and are like a layer of gravel. In the Sahara Desert, they are called regs and serirs, and in Australia, they are called gibber plains. A blowout is a circular or elliptical depression caused by deflation, measuring several hundred meters in diameter and about one meter deep. It is called a wind-eroded depression or wind-eroded depression. …

From the Desert

...The ground covered with gravel is the result of deflation blowing away sand and dust, leaving behind gravel and boulders, and is called desert pavement, or Gibber Plain in Australia. Desert pavement, where small gravel is piled on top of the soil, is called reg in the western Sahara and serir in the eastern Sahara. For this reason, the words reg and hamada are often used as synonyms for gravel desert.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…デフレーションにより形成される地形としてはデザート・ペーブメントdesert pavement,ブローアウトblowoutがある。前者は,砂塵が風で飛ばされて大きな礫や岩塊などが残るため生じた,あたかも礫を敷きつめたような地面で,サハラ砂漠ではレグreg,セリールserir,オーストラリアではギバー・プレーンgibber plainと呼ばれる。ブローアウトは径数百m以下,深さは1m程度の円ないし楕円形のデフレーションによる凹地で,風食凹地または風食窪と呼ばれる。…

【砂漠】より

…礫が敷きつめたように集中して堆積している地面は,デフレーションにより砂塵が吹き飛ばされて礫や岩塊などが残った結果生じたもので,デザート・ペーブメントdesert pavement,オーストラリアではギバー・プレーンgibber plainという。小礫が土壌上に堆積しているデザート・ペーブメントはサハラ西部ではレグreg,東部ではセリールserirと呼ばれている。このためレグ,ハマダの語は礫砂漠の同義語としても使用されることが多い。…

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