Multiple Choice
How is desert pavement formed?
A) Deflation and sheet wash remove fine-sized materials leaving coarse, weathered, rock fragments concentrated at the surface.
B) Blowing wind removes fine-size soil particles; coarser particles abrades to sand size.
C) Running water deposits gravel and sand over the finer-sized soil particles.
D) Intense chemical weathering removes the sand- and silt-sized particles, leaving coarse rock debris covering the land surface.
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