GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A playa (also known as a pan, flat, or dry lake) is a depression with a flat floor found in interior desert basins. They are found near the beaches in dry and semi-arid locations.

Detailed explanation-2: -Aeolian landforms are shaped by the wind (named for the Greek God of wind, Aeolus). Aeolian processes create a number of distinct features, through both erosion and deposition of sediment, including: Sand dunes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sand dunes are created when wind deposits sand on top of each other until a small mound starts to form. Once that first mound forms, sand piles up on the windward side more and more until the edge of the dune collapses under its own weight.

Detailed explanation-4: -A dune is a mound of sand formed by the wind, usually along the beach or in a desert. Dunes form when wind blows sand into a sheltered area behind an obstacle. Dunes grow as grains of sand accumulate. Every dune has a windward side and a slipface.

Detailed explanation-5: -While wind erosion is most common in deserts and coastal sand dunes and beaches, certain land conditions will cause wind erosion in agricultural areas.