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And so. Hello, you're listening to The Science of Everything podcast, episode 128, wind, deserts and coasts.

I'm your host, James Fodor.

Now, this is our second in our series of episodes looking at geomorphology and landscape features.

And in this episode, we're going to focus on what's called eolian erosion or

aeolian processes. So these are processes that are dominated by wind activity. And because of

their dry climate, deserts are one of the major eolian dominated environments. We're also

going to talk about coastlines, because although you might think of those as dominated by the

action of water, in fact, wave action is preeminent in shaping many coastlines, and waves are

driven by the wind as well. So we will, that's why we're talking about coastlines here, too.

There's no real recommended pre-listing for this episode, although it makes sense in the

context of the previous episode on weathering erosion this episode, although it makes sense in the context of the previous

episode on weathering erosion and rivers, so episode 127, for a little bit of background as

to where we're going, but this episode should mostly stand on, stand by itself. And what we're

going to look at is the processes of erosion, transportation, and deposition in the context

of deserts, and talk a bit about

different desert landscape features and morphology. And then we're going to do basically the same

thing for coasts, focusing on coastal landforms, cliff erosion and processes that shape beaches.

So just to set the scene before we jump right into that, remember that in the previous episode

we talked about the weathering and erosion processes that shaped environments in which

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