During prolonged droughts, which outcome disproportionately affects silty topsoil?

💡 Explanation

Increased dust storms correlate highly with desert silty topsoil undergoing droughts because wind erosion via selective particle entrainment called deflation preferentially removes small, loosely bound particles making larger dust storms, rather than slower chemical alteration during wetting/drying or soil modification.

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• Which mechanism causes the formation of oceanic 'garbage patches' within subtropical gyres?
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