#saltation

David Mattingly - Salvage Right by Steve Miller and Sharon Lee Source

David Mattingly - Necessity's Child by Steve Miller and Sharon Lee Source

David Mattingly - Saltation by Steve Miller and Sharon Lee Source

David Mattingly - Gathering Edge by Steve Miller and Sharon Lee Source

David Mattingly - Dragon Ship by Steve Miller and Sharon Lee Source

David Mattingly - Echoes of Honor by Steve Miller and Sharon Lee Source

David Mattingly - Orbs in the Solar System Source

Let me wind my slender arm

Around your neck

Let me suck the fever

From your parched lips

Let me . . .

Pokedex entries because yes

Droolphin: Back in the ancient times, tribes would use their horrible tasting and slightly poisonous saliva as a way to taint enemy tribes’ food. Nowadays, they are seen as pests towards farmers and cooks due to them contaminating food, but they are unaware of this, as they still believe they are helping.

Spitxiety: While they are shown to have capability of being a powerful Pokémon, they are so worried about what contaminating anything their poisonous saliva touches that they’re almost unable to attack. When they get too stressed, they violently whip their tongue around, causing a rain of poisonous saliva.

Amazing wind

These wind-erosion features in Egypt's White Desert are some of the most amazing erosional features on Earth.

These pillars are formed by a sequence of water erosion followed by wind erosion. To form these, first the sedimentary layers had to be deposited and lithified by some sort of cement. Those rocks then were uplifted out of the water, making it so that erosion could take hold. There had to be a role for water in creating channels or some other topography that penetrated the top layer, allowing wind to get through, as water is a much more powerful erosive agent. Water started eroding through the layers, breaking through the more resistant upper layers in places. At some point, wind took over. Wind erodes by picking up sand grains and sandblasting anything it runs into. Sand grains move via saltation, they bounce along the ground and usually don’t get more than a meter or so off the ground. Sand erosion therefore eats away at any rocks that are about a meter or less above the ground, leaving the slender pillars that hold up the larger rocks in this part of Egypt’s White Desert.

Other terms for these could include mushrooms, yardangs, or ventifacts.

-JBB

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Two stars deep into heaven

Whispering love, exhausted

Behind the nighttime curtain

While down below, now, people lie

Their hair disentangling . . .

Spring is short

What is there that has eternal life

I said and

Made his hands seek out

My powerful breasts.