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Barchans usually occur as
groups of
isolated dunes and may form
chains that
extend across a
plain in the
direction of the
prevailing wind.
Barchans and...
- The
Barchans is a
group of
small snow-capped
islands marking the west end of the
Argentine Islands, in the
Wilhelm Archipelago.
Charted by the British...
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areas of
bedrock or reg.
Barchans migrate up to 30
meters (98 ft) per year, with the
taller dunes migrating faster.
Barchans first form when some minor...
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Barchan (Persian: بارچان, also
Romanized as
Bārchān; also
known as Bārchūn) is a
village in
Garkan Rural District, Garkan-e
Jonubi District, Mobarakeh...
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unidirectional wind. In the
sheltered troughs between highly developed seif dunes,
barchans may be formed,
because the wind is
constrained to be
unidirectional by...
- to a loud low-pitch rumble. It
emanates from crescent-shaped dunes, or
barchans. The
sound emission accompanies a
slumping or
avalanching movement of sand...
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highlands (Sultanuizdag, Bukantau). Most of the area is
covered with
dunes (
barchans); in the
northwest large areas are
covered with
takirs (clay coatings);...
- Hoyt
Carlton (1920–1921) Bill
Renfroe (1921)
George Stanley (1921)
Joseph Barchan (1922)
Stewart Pomeroy (1922)
Edgar C.
Jones (1923–1925)
Johnnie Murphree...
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drift like the sand
grains in
barchan dunes, and the
resulting drifting snow
shapes are also po****rly
referred to as
barchans.
Inuit of
Canada call them...
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barchans behave rather like
solitary waves. Waves:
breaking wave in a ship's wake Dunes: sand
dunes in
Taklamakan desert, from
space Dunes:
barchan crescent...
