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yardangs
Streamlined
hill
oriented parallel to the prevailing winds and produced by wind
erosion
of rock or soft
sediment
.
young
A
stage
in the
geomorphic cycle
in which a landscape has just been uplifted and is beginning to be dissected by canyons cut by
young
streams.
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