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The different sandstone and limestone layers were formed by wind blown sand dunes or mud deposited by inland seas. The red colors of some of the sandstone ...
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Environmental Restoration: Soil Pitting to Improve Arid Land Revegetation
Pits also capture blowing litter, seeds, and fine dust and protect seedlings from wind and sand blast. The increased availability of water in and around the pits provides suitable niches for ... the soil pits declines as they fill in with blown or washed soils and debris. Pits in sandy soil in a high wind environment were largely filled in after one season at ...
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They set down right in front of the tent. When I saw the wave of sand and gravel ... ride; jaegers, gulls, terns, phalaropes, and brant. Wave after wave of wind ran through the grass. The snow was scudding along the ground, ... its side, full of sand and water. The tent was still closed and had blown out from underneath. My sleep tent had also blown 20 feet but ...
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Orange County California Watershed
Paint, chemicals, plant clippings and other materials can be blown or washed into storm drains that flow to the ocean. Unlike ... or fertilizers if rain is expected within 48 hours or if wind speeds are above 5 mph. Do not spray pesticides within 100 ... to clean floors. Cover dumpsters to block insects, animals, rainwater and sand. Keep the area around the dumpster clear of trash and debris. ...
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Cenchrus ciliaris
H, and sand (Duke, 1978). Many ecotypes and strains are known, each adapted to certain conditions and ... by wind and by sticking to animal fur. Buffelgrass may be established throughout the year, although its chances for establishment are better at onset of wet season. The light, fluffy wind-blown seeds ...
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Kavir (the Salt Desert
These sand billows alternate with bare expanses of ... fierce north-west wind into strange shapes, suggestive of walls and towers.' Lieutenant Galindo found everywhere beneath the sand a substratum ...
www.iras.ucalgary.ca

LANDFILLS
A 6 ft. thick system of plastic liners, sand, and clay cover the bottom the the Puent Hills landfill. Water is not added to ... refuse to control odors. Also, wind-blown trash has been a problem. A low fence has been extended around the facility to catch the most common nusiance, wind-blown plastic bags. Related Web Sites ...
www.lalc.k12.ca.us

Land Stewardship Resource Centre
Canadian Shield The Group of Seven painters used strong colors to depict a landscape of wind-blown pine trees, rocky outcrops, rushing rivers and hidden lakes. This landscape exists in a remote ... best-kept secret -- and for good reason. Granite headlands and bright sand beaches stretch from Fiddler Point to White Sand Point and beyond. The landscape has never been touched by direct industrial ...
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The Sphinx, Giza Plateau, near Cairo, Egypt
Sphinx has been in this condition for nearly all of the last five thousand years - since the alleged time of its 4th Dynasty construction. Furthermore, if wind-blown sand ... wind for a similar length of time. Yet the fact of the matter is, that even on structures that have had more exposure to the wind-blown sand, there are minimal effects of erosion, the sand having ...
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Publications - Environment & Poverty Times #5 - Fishing for the future in Fiji
In 1970s and 1980s -- years of environmental crisis -- there were few trees remaining in Niger. Wind-blown sands razed farmers' young crops and they often had to plant crops three times to ... . Improved soil fertility leads to higher crop yields. The trees and bushes protect crops against wind and sand, and farmers now often need to sow only once, which increases the length of ...
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