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How Is Desert Pavement Formed

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How is desert pavement formed?


A) Blowing wind removes fine- size soil particles; coarser particles abrades to sand size.
B) Running water deposits gravel and sand over the finer- sized soil particles.
C) Intense chemical weathering removes the sand- and silt- sized particles, leaving coarse rock debris covering the land surface.
D) Deflation and sheet wash remove fine- sized materials leaving coarse, weathered, rock fragments concentrated at the surface.

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