Barchans

Word BARCHANS
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What do we mean by barchans?

An arc-shaped sand ridge comprising well-sorted sand.

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The word "barchans" in example sentences

Once or twice we saw horsemen in the distance, on the low rocky barchans, and I heard for the first time names like "Kazak" and "Turka", but they kept a safe distance. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)

For anyone still doubting the possibilities for naturally complex dune systems, check the MOC Gallery of Martian Sand Dunes (I like this one of barchans in Nili Patera in 3D) in comparison with the Eolian Landforms chapter of the NASA/Goddard online book, Geomorphology from Space. ❋ Ray Girvan (2004)

To the north of the salt wastes was another long belt of yellow sand extending for some 40 miles, upon which there was absolutely no vegetation, while intervening between the salt and this sand flat were numerous sand barchans, like horseshoes, with a gradual slope on the windward side (north) and a crescent hollow with a steep but not quite vertical bank on the lee side. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

Some nineteen miles from Tretoh, where the hill range to the north became low, a few sand hills were to be seen, then where another gap existed in the range yet another long row of barchans stretched southwards. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

Most of these sand-barchans had a striking peculiarity. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

I have also seen barchans, the inner crescent of which showed beyond doubt that when there is a prevalent wind from one side only, the above explanation, although less scientifically obscure and elaborate than most, applies, and, I think, it may eventually be found quite the most probable. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

I noticed all over Persia, and in Beluchistan as well as here, that these sand barchans, or barchanes, will only form on level ground -- generally on extensive plains. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

These three rows of barchans were parallel, and at intervals of about from 300 yards to 500 yards from one another. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

The barchans averaged from 50 ft. to 100 ft. in height. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

The cause of these extensive parallel rows of barchans was to be found in gaps in the hills to the north between the Sultan, the next range, and two intervening obstacles in the shape of a low mound and a great rock, the sand being blown through the interstices and gradually accumulating in the plain on the south. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

Various are the theories with regard to the formation of these barchans, and especially with regard to the formation of the hollow on the lee side. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

In fact in many barchans the sand ripples on the windward slopes cross the direction of the wind at right angles. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

All single sand hills, however, whether barchans, conical, semi-spherical, or of more irregular shapes, are invariably caused by a primary obstacle, however small, arresting the sand. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

It is built in the centre of a fairly large irregular shaped patch of flat sand, about one kilometre accross, surrounded by low sandstone hills on three sides, and a chain of low barchans to the west. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Over time, the barchans migrate downwind, following their horns. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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