Which effect results when inconsistent wind scouring forms ventifacts?

💡 Explanation

Differential rock weathering results because variations in rock hardness combined with aeolian abrasion from saltating sand grains via the mechanism of deflation sculpt resistant sections into ventifacts; therefore desert pavement forms rather than uniform erosion.

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