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	Ventifact - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ventifacts are rocks that have been abraded, grooved, or polished by wind driven sand.
		These geomorphic features are most typically found in arid environments where there is little vegetation to interfere with eolian particle transport, where there are frequently strong winds, and where there is a steady but not overwhelming supply of sand.
		The wind direction at the time the ventifact formed will be parallel to grooves or striations cut in the rock.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ventifact (227 words)

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		Ventifacts are usually in the form of small rocks which have become naturally "sandblasted" by wind-borne sand and sometimes finer sediments such as silt and clay.
		Ventifacts are defined by their smoothed, flattened or faceted surface(s) and sharp ridges or edges.
		Ventifacts have been seen on the surface of Mars, in the dry deserts of Antarctica and in desert regions of the Amercan Southwest.
	www.ventifact.com (1044 words)

	Ventifact -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ventifacts are (Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust) rocks that have been abraded, grooved, or polished by wind driven sand.
		These geomorphic features are most typically found in arid environments where there is little vegetation to interfere with (A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks) eolian particle transport, where there are frequently strong winds, and where there is a steady but not overwhelming supply of sand.
		The wind direction at the time the ventifact formed will be parallel to grooves or (Any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue) striations cut in the rock.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/ve/ventifact.htm (265 words)

	Wind-Abraded Rocks - 2000JE001481
		The preservation of ventifacts varies with climate, rock type (with carbonate ventifacts being poorly preserved owing to chemical weathering), granular disintegration, and exfoliation.
		Similar to terrestrial ventifacts, pits are generally found on high-angle faces, while elongated pits and flutes occur on inclined upper surfaces, and the grooves are found on the upper surfaces of rocks.
		This is consistent with wind abrasion by generally unidirectional winds, in which the steep windward faces of the rocks are pitted by near-perpendicular collisions of saltating particles and the upper parts of the rock are gouged by grains hitting at shallower angles, forming grooves.
	www.agu.org /pubs/sample_articles/sp/2000JE001481/3.shtml (2222 words)

	Summer Rock Hunting
		A ventifact is a rock that has been shaped by windborne particles of sand and silt.
		Ventifacts have somewhat polished surfaces and a roughly faceted appearance.
		Although it lacks the pointed shape of most ventifacts, this one has a polished sheen and is clearly ridged.
	www.angelfire.com /ak5/akboreal/rocks.html (634 words)

	ABSTRACT: Sand-wedge and ventifact palaeoenvironmental indicators in Northwest Saskatchewan, Canada, 11ka to 9.9 ka BP. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Exhumed sand wedges and ventifacts in the upper Churchill watershed of northwestern Saskatchewan indicate that aeolian and periglacial processes were dominate from c.
		Ventifacts that overlie the sand-wedges have preferred keel orientations that correlate with paleo-katabatic wind directions interpreted from stabilized parabolic dune orientations.
		Two geomorphic surfaces are identified: (1) an older surface with sand wedges and weakly-developed ventifacts indicative of permafrost and brief aeolian activity; and (2) a lower and >younger segment of the former Lake Agassiz basin, without permafrost indicators and well-developed ventifacts.
	cgrg.geog.uvic.ca /abstracts/FisherSand-wedgeExhumed1996.html (279 words)

	Basin Road - A
		The easily accessible vertifacts at "Ventifact Hill," east of Afton Canyon, are just a few of the many spectacular examples of sandblasted rocks that are to be found in the east-central Mojave Desert.
		Today, areas of active ventifact formation are limited to a few hill crests where dune sand is being reworked by bidirectional winds (From the Author's Introduction, Laity, 2000).
		Ventifacts in the Mojave River Corridor and at "Ventifact Hill".
	www.schweich.com /cabasinrdA.html (404 words)

	Wind Erosion of Soil by Marian ??
		Numerous wind flow tests of the fluted ventifacts showed that flute patterns conformed to wind dispersal around the ventifacts and that much of this dispersal was in subsidiary flows such as negative flow back to windward or secondary flows, merging with streamlines.
		A siliceous limestone ventifact with fingers to windward and fluting to lee of a sharp
		A linearly fluted sand grain in a moat on the dolostone ventifact
	www.cst.cmich.edu /users/dietr1rv/erosion (3740 words)

	ROCK ABRASION AND VENTIFACT FORMATION ON EARTH AND MARS USING WIND TUNNEL STUDIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Rock analog materials are being abraded under terrestrial, Martian, and high particle flux conditions to determine the effects of target and atmospheric properties on ventifact morphology.
		The relation between the target properties and experimental conditions and the resulting morphological forms produced provide the formulation of models of ventifact formation on actual rocks.
		These resulting models will eventually provide estimates for the rates of ventifact formation and the link between morphology and geologic and aeolian factors in rocks on Earth and Mars.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2001AM/finalprogram/abstract_28638.htm (414 words)

	Amateur Geologist Structured Geological Glossary: Eolian Weathering
		Term describing the process of wind erosion, transport, and deposition, and wind-created deposits and structure such as sand dune.
		A physical weathering process in which rock is eroded by the impact of sand grain carried by the wind, frequently leading to ventifact formation of pebble and cobble.
		A shallow circular or elliptical depression in sand or dry soil formed by wind erosion.
	www.amateurgeologist.com /content/glossary/weathering/eolian.html (380 words)

	Ventifact Ridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Enroute to Badwater, we came to this ridge that is oriented east-west, perpendicular to the axis of Death Valley and the common wind direction.
		The cobbles and boulders on the ridge are ventifacts (rocks whose shape has been modified by the sandblasting effect of the wind).
		The side of the rocks facing the camera is the side that has been grooved and polished by wind erosion.
	www.csun.edu /geology/Field_Trips/death_valley_files/ventifactridge.html (99 words)

	Dr. Laity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		My recent research has focused on wind erosion, rock abrasion, and the human impact on deserts, including problems of dune encroachment and dust generation.
		One project involves the study of ongoing processes of abrasion and ventifact formation, for which a fully automated weather station has been established in the Little Cowhole Mountains of the Mojave Desert.
		Ventifact evidence for Holocene wind patterns in the east-central Mojave Desert.
	www.csun.edu /geography/HTML/laity.html (585 words)

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		The Ventifact is a compact medical grade air compressor intended for the delivery of clean and dry compressed air.
		Designed for performance, the Ventifact compressor will deliver peak flow of 120 LPM minimum upto 1.5 seconds to meet unusual demands.
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	www.thcindia.com /vtifact.htm (163 words)

	Ventifact Ridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Near Death Valley's most colorful attraction, Artists Palette, is a little-known ridge with some very unique rocks: ventifacts.
		What makes the rocks here so unusual is the way they have been eroded and the degree of that erosion.
		A "ventifact" is a rock that has had its shape and surface changed by windblown sand.
	backroadswest.com /deathvalley/Ventifact.htm (99 words)

	Joe Mastroianni's 2001 Antarctica Diary
		I'd gone up to a garden of ventifacts with the editor of the Antarctic Sun, the NSF sponsored newspaper in McMurdo.
		These were perfectly smooth, and in the middle of one, a giant ventifact rose like a monument to the spirit of that frozen body.
		The pumice littered the side of a mountain and had spilled from the hillside hundreds of meters above covering the landscape so that it seemed to be carpeted in smooth red.
	www.killerowls.com /2002/diary17.html (685 words)

	Creating the Gottlesman Hall of Planet Earth \| American Museum of Natural History
		Scott Borg from the National Science Foundation Polar Research Program journeyed to Antarctica with a team of colleagues and collected a 500 lb.
		ventifact on behalf of the Museum, while conducting their own research.
		A ventifact is a rock that has been intricately sculpted or eroded, by wind, showing the incredible power of wind blowing over an area for sustained periods of time.
	www.amnh.org /rose/hope/creatinghope/expeditions/q4_ex1_main.html (98 words)

	ventifact - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		ventifact : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
		ventifact : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=ventifact (129 words)

	Ventifact sculpture by windblown dust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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	www.kg-kallendresser.de /ventifact_sculpture_by_windblown_dust.htm (635 words)

	LEO Archive: ventifact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One common artifact of the sand dune is a windkanter or ventifact.
		Much of the sand moved by wind bounces along very lose to the surface.
		One or more faces can develop on a single ventifact.
	forum.leo.org /archiv.ende/2003_09/14/20030914024139w_en.html (126 words)

	Gatherer Lookup Window - Ventifact Bottle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		: Put X charge counters on Ventifact Bottle.
		Play this ability only any time you could play a sorcery.
		At the beginning of your precombat main phase, if Ventifact Bottle has a charge counter on it, tap it and remove all charge counters from it.
	gatherer.wizards.com /gathererlookup.asp?name=Ventifact_Bottle (60 words)

	VENTIFACT - Mojave Desert - Glossary of Terms and Definitions
		VENTIFACT - Mojave Desert - Glossary of Terms and Definitions
		VENTIFACT - A stone that has been shaped, polished, or faceted by wind-driven sand and silt particles.
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	mojavedesert.net /glossary/ventifact.html (129 words)

	Magic the Gathering: Mirage - Ventifact Bottle - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		At the beginning of your main phase, if Ventifact Bottle has any charge counters on it, tap Ventifact Bottle and remove all charge counters from it to
		This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 16 May, 2001.
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	www.psi-soft.co.uk /product_info.php/products_id/31545 (144 words)

	ventifact -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		As one surface is cut, the stone may become out of balance and may turn to expose another surface to the wind.
		A ventifact that has been eroded to three curved facets is called a dreikanter.
		"ventifact." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?eu=77006 (76 words)

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	Ventifact yardang eolian rocks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In law, the interruption of a legal proceeding upon the pleading by a defendant of a matter that prevents the plaintiff from going forward with the suit at that time or in that form.
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	en.powerwissen.com /a77c0mpC5Sbh9reAnDDFEw%3D%3D_Ventifact.html (289 words)

	ventifact For Sale
		Mirage's Ventifact Bottle in Excellent condition from the Magic Card game.
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	ventifact.ioffer.com (122 words)

	Bottle information and rulings
		Oracle text: 1X, Tap: Put X charge counters on Ventifact Bottle.
		Then add X to your mana pool, where X is the number of charge counters removed this way.
		Click here to see the official rulings for Ventifact Bottle in our Ask the Judge database!
	sales.starcitygames.com /cardsearch.php?singlesearch=Bottle (1971 words)

	Photo: Ventifact on top of Ventifact Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I sometimes post interesting questions in my FAQ, but I never disclose your full name or address.
		Most of the ventifacts in this region are fossil or relict in nature, attesting to a time of greater sediment availability and possibly higher velocity winds (Laity,2000).
		Ecological Sites Along U. Interstate 15: Ventifact Hill
	www.schweich.com /imagehtml/1440-20.html (112 words)

	Mile High Comics: Magic The Gathering Single Cards: VENTIFACT BOTTLE MAGIC THE GATHERING CARD
		VENTIFACT BOTTLE MAGIC THE GATHERING CARD is a Trade.
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		For permission please contact Lynne MacAfee at lynne@milehighcomics.com.
	www.milehighcomics.com /comicindex/Title-VENTIFACT-BOTTLE-MAGIC-THE-GATHERING-CARD-by-Magic-The-Gathering-Single-Cards.html (98 words)

	PRISM - Research Projects: Quantitative Studies of Rock Abrasion on Earth & Mars -- Mojave Desert Little Cowholes ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		N-facing ventifact slope: dip is 45° to the northwest; strike is N35E
		S-facing ventifact slope: 65° dip; sloping to SW; Strike approx N38°W
		QTVR Panoramic View (4 MB) Click image to view.
	prism.asu.edu /jpl/mojave.asp (568 words)

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