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yardang
noun
A large wind-eroded mass of soft or poorly consolidated rock in a desert region which lies parallel to the prevailing winds, often with an unusual shape.
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Yardang, large area of soft, poorly consolidated rock and bedrock surfaces that have been extensively grooved, fluted, and pitted by wind erosion.
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Yardangs occur in various deserts of the world including the Turkistan and the Mojave deserts.
My wife organised a birthday convoy of 4x4s, hotdogging over yardangs accompanied by the screams of fear and delight as we flew over crescents of ochre sand dunes.
Mankind could take on nature and win, could make its own yardangs and hoodoos.
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