Sand Morphology Distribution Characteristics of the Southwest Buguli Desert

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10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.176How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Sand; Morphology characteristics; Wind-sand flow

Abstract

The morphology of the natural sand in the southwest of Buguli desert, Xingjiang, China, has been studied to determine the sand-mass flux of the wind-sand flow, sand particle size distribution and morphology distribution. The results show that, when the average wind speed is 6.7m/s 2 m high from the ground, averagely, about 98.1% of the winds drifting sands have the particle size ranging from 0.05mm to 0.15mm. Under the wind-sand flow state, the main sand shape is given priority to the rounded or subangular shapes, which account for 94.7 ~ 96.1%. With increasing height from 0 to 4 cm, the probability of finding rounded sands is getting smaller, and the size of sand particles with higher probability to be round is also getting smaller: from the range of 0.15 ~ 0.20mm to the range of 0.10 to 0.15mm.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiangling Zhou
AU  - Wei Zhang
AU  - Shengqing Yu
PY  - 2015/09
DA  - 2015/09
TI  - Sand Morphology Distribution Characteristics of the Southwest Buguli Desert
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Forum on Energy, Environment Science and Materials
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 956
EP  - 961
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.176
DO  - 10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.176
ID  - Zhou2015/09
ER  -