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🏜️ Yardang Wind-Erosion Ridges

Explore how abrasive sand-laden wind sculpts solid rock into elongated, streamlined yardang ridges over thousands of years.

Geology & Earth Science3DModerate60 FPS💨 Air & Wind 🌍 Earth

The simulation demonstrates how a rock mass progressively erodes into a streamlined yardang ridge as abrasive wind interacts with variable rock hardness over simulated time.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

The simulation demonstrates how a rock mass progressively erodes into a streamlined yardang ridge as abrasive wind interacts with variable rock hardness over simulated time.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust the wind speed, sand particle load, and rock hardness sliders, then run the simulation to watch the rock mass reshape in real time under the resulting abrasion pattern.

💡 Did You Know?

Some yardangs in Iran's Lut Desert, one of the hottest places on Earth, tower over 100 meters tall and are visible from space as parallel corrugations across the desert floor.

⚙ Under the hood

Explore how abrasive sand-laden wind sculpts solid rock into elongated, streamlined yardang ridges over thousands of years.

geomorphologyaeolian processesdesert landformswind erosionabrasionyardangarid geologysediment transport

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install