Multiple Choice
How are sand grains transported by the wind?
A) high in the moving air column as suspended load
B) by saltation as bed load in the first metre above the land surface
C) by deflation of abraded desert pavement
D) by being picked up in swirling dust devils and carried to distant blowouts
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