saltation

Example Sentences

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Yet, saltation from winds may be sufficient to move or remove materials not anchored by vegetation.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Sand grains can be moved by traction and saltation.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Wind-induced saltation abrasion of the rocks in Yellowknife Bay appears to have been the mechanism responsible for erosion and exhumation of the ancient lake bed sampled by Curiosity.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 23, 2014

I’m trying, rather, to work out and articulate some of the troubling questions that arise amid all the laughter and saltation and community pride of the Maine Lobster Festival.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2012

But man danced with joy before he worshipped, and, when he invented a systematic saltation, he made it represent two things, and only two things, love and war, in most primitive form, courtship and fighting.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir