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Deserts Very well sorted sand accumulates in giant fields, called Ergs, up to 500,000 km3 in extent within continental depressions. Usually <200 m thick.

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1 Deserts Very well sorted sand accumulates in giant fields, called Ergs, up to 500,000 km3 in extent within continental depressions. Usually <200 m thick. Ergs comprise giant km-scale Draa, which in turn are built of smaller dunes, whose form vary with grain size and wind strength. Modern example: Algerian and Saudi Ergs. Ancient example: Permian New Red Sandstone, Jurassic Navajo Sandstone of Utah.

2 Dune morphology

3 Grain size- dune wavelength

4 Erg morphology

5 Paleo-currents-dune types

6 Crescent dunes- Arabia

7 Linear seif dunes, Yemen

8 Linear seif dune field, Lut, Iran

9 Star shaped dune, Namibia

10 Cross-bedded dune sandstones

11 Bioturbation in aeolian sand

12 Barchan dune field, Nubra, India


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