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Moved or made by wind
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eolian
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of aeolian English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eolian \E*o"li*an\, a. [See [AE]olian .] [AE]olian. (Geol.) Formed, or deposited, by the action of wind, as dunes. Eolian attachment , Eolian harp . See [AE]olian .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see Aeolian .
Usage examples of eolian.
Coyote remarked as they drove up a smooth slope of eolian deposit, over another rim pass and out of the crater.
The floor had been desiccated by the original impact, and now it consisted of about a kilometer's depth of eolian sediment, underlain by a hard cake of brecciated rock, formed during the brief but stupendous pressures of the impact.
The floor had been desiccated by the original impact, and now it consisted of about a kilometer’s depth of eolian sediment, underlain by a hard cake of brecciated rock, formed during the brief but stupendous pressures of the impact.
Today with much-reduced eolian erosion as a result of the greening of Arrakis, and with little in the waj of water erosion, mountains are rising rapidly (rapidly m a geological time sense).