How Are Sand Grains Transported by the Wind

question 36

Multiple Choice

How are sand grains transported by the wind?

• A)by being picked up in swirling dust clouds and carried to distant blowouts
• B)high in the moving air column as suspended load
• C)by saltation in the first few meters above the land surface
• D)by deflation of abraded desert pavement

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