Jump to content

Search results

Did you mean: wind blow
View (previous 20 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
  • Thumbnail for Stellar-wind bubble
    A stellar-wind bubble is a cavity light-years across filled with hot gas blown into the interstellar medium by the high-velocity (several thousand km/s)...
    2 KB (217 words) - 07:57, 13 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Desert
    dust storms. Wind-blown sand grains striking any solid object in their path can abrade the surface. Rocks are smoothed down, and the wind sorts sand into...
    111 KB (13,090 words) - 03:11, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Loess
    predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust. Ten percent of Earth's land area is covered by loesses or similar...
    33 KB (3,850 words) - 20:45, 20 June 2024
  • The Windblown Hare is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated short directed by Robert McKimson. The short was released on August 27, 1949, and stars Bugs...
    4 KB (326 words) - 00:46, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Erg Chebbi
    الشبي) is one of Morocco's several ergs – large seas of dunes formed by wind-blown sand. It is located on the far western edge of the Sahara Desert. There...
    6 KB (335 words) - 04:30, 11 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for West Indies
    Bahamas and Turks and Caicos likely formed from accumulated deposits of wind-blown sediments during Pleistocene glacial periods of lower sea level.  Cayman...
    30 KB (2,664 words) - 19:44, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aeolian processes
    requiring abundant sand, powerful winds, and a lack of vegetation for their formation. In parts of Antarctica wind-blown snowflakes that are technically...
    48 KB (6,008 words) - 08:37, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Erg (landform)
    desert area that contains more than 125 km2 (48 sq mi) of aeolian or wind-blown sand and where sand covers more than 20% of the surface. Smaller areas...
    14 KB (1,618 words) - 19:51, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dicranum
    Dicranum (redirect from Wind-Blown Moss)
    Dicranum is a genus of mosses, also called wind-blown mosses or fork mosses. These mosses form in densely packed clumps. Stems may fork, but do not branch...
    19 KB (1,523 words) - 20:45, 30 December 2023
  • (landform) – Broad area of desert covered with wind-swept sand Loess – Sediment of accumulated wind-blown dust Médanos (geology) – type of sand dunePages...
    12 KB (906 words) - 12:44, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lupin bean
    quarantine zone is maintained around lupin-growing croplands to prevent wind-blown wild pollen from having a large influence on crop toxicity. Lupin beans...
    18 KB (2,071 words) - 11:24, 4 July 2024
  • negatively impacted by the intensity of the 120-day wind and by blown sand associated with it. The wind can reach speeds of 10 metres per second (36 km/h;...
    9 KB (1,015 words) - 16:14, 30 June 2021
  • Thumbnail for Sevier Lake
    mostly dry throughout recorded history and its dry lakebed is a source of wind-blown dust. The first recorded observation was in 1872, which stated that the...
    9 KB (648 words) - 14:18, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ocean
    agricultural runoff, wind-blown debris, and dust. These nonpoint sources are largely due to runoff that enters the ocean through rivers, but wind-blown debris and...
    127 KB (16,959 words) - 13:59, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rime ice
    types of rime ice: Soft rime forms when supercooled water freezes under calm wind conditions. It is milky and crystalline, like sugar, and similar to hoar...
    7 KB (958 words) - 16:16, 22 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Water pollution
    agricultural runoff, wind-blown debris, and dust. These nonpoint sources are largely due to runoff that enters the ocean through rivers, but wind-blown debris and...
    58 KB (8,388 words) - 09:32, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Loess Plateau
    of loess, a clastic silt-like sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust. It is located southeast of the Gobi Desert and is surrounded by...
    39 KB (4,151 words) - 13:00, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Billy Martin
    enjoyed a close relationship with Stengel. Martin's spectacular catch of a wind-blown Jackie Robinson popup late in Game Seven of the 1952 World Series saved...
    124 KB (17,051 words) - 18:31, 20 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mima mounds
    origin of Mima mounds include burrowing by pocket gophers; accumulation of wind-blown (aeolian) sediments around vegetation to form coppice dunes or nebkhas;...
    27 KB (3,314 words) - 20:56, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Loam
    2006) Great Mosque of Djenné (Mali, 2004) Loess – Sediment of accumulated wind-blown dust Grain size – Diameter of individual grains of sediment, or of lithified...
    6 KB (692 words) - 23:13, 10 May 2024
View (previous 20 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)