Yardangs are streamlined ridges wind-carved from soft desert rock
Where windblown sand abrades soft sediments for ages, it can carve elongated yardangs — ridges streamlined like ship hulls, aligned with the prevailing wind.
Harder caps may protect softer cores, leaving fields of parallel blades separated by wind-scoured corridors.
Air is a sculptor with grit for chisels. Yardangs turn prevailing wind into permanent topography across arid basins.
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