Studies of rates, processes and modes of rock surface, and near-surface, deterioration, and
also hardening, are central to rock weathering and building stone research, conservation …

The southern coast of Brazil has been settled in different episodes between ca. 7.5 and 0.5
ka before the present by hunter-fisher-gatherers, shell mound builders of the pre-colonial …

Ventifacts, rocks abraded by wind‐borne particles, are found in Gale Crater, Mars. In the
eastward drive from “Bradbury Landing” to “Rocknest,” they account for about half of the float …

Chapter Highlights This short chapter offers a wealth of material, many of them recent
developments. We discuss and tabulate (Table 7.2) the different classification schemes and …

Ventifacts (wind-worn stones) are typical of terrestrial environments remained very long
without any vegetation, under hot or cold climates. Therefore, within the sedimentary record …

Modeling pebble abrasion during bed load transport is of fundamental importance in fluvial
geomorphology, as it may help to understand downstream fining patterns along gravel bed …

Summary'Wind erosion'is something of a misnomer, because the formation of wind‐eroded
landforms is not the work of the wind itself, but of the mineral grains that the wind carries …

We use a quantitative model to examine rock abrasion by direct impacts of sand grains. Two
distinct mechanisms are uncovered (unidirectional and isotropic), which contribute to the …

The Pleistocene environment of the New Jersey Pine Barrens has been interpreted as either
cool and moist, with boreal forest, or cold and dry, with semi‐desert conditions. The …

Although ventifacts are often utilized to determine past and present wind directions and
sediment mobilities in arid, coastal, and periglacial environments, their morphodynamics …