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The first paragraph seems to be taken verbatim from: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/deserts/eolian/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Amnesta (talk • contribs) 03:01, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Source material clearly in the public domain, such as the source in question, is proper to bring over to Wikipedia. The source is indicated in the References section, as is standard for Wikipedia. However, it should be improved with with an inline citation, and further edited for NPOV and encyclopedic style. -- Paleorthid (talk) 17:31, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mariner 9

I changed the sentence on Mariner 9 to

"When the Mariner 9 spacecraft entered its orbit around Mars in 1971, a dust strom lasting one month covered the entire planet, thus delaying the task of photo-mapping the planet's surface."

since the former version was imho slightly misleading (i.e. "a Mariner 9 landing caused a global dust cover"). My source is: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/past/mariner8-9.html --83.77.159.127 14:39, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Photo: Wind-carved alcove in the Navajo Sandstone near Moab, Utah

I doubt this alcove was carved by wind. Leaflet (talk) 03:02, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you can not say that other processes like ice and rain had NO impact, but, if you check out references like this and this, you can see similar shapes (not exactly the same, but similar) that are credited as wind eroded. Also, with the cave-like shape of this feature, it is hard to imagine water making a shape like that and NOT wind, because water erosion does not scallop and does not carve horizontally, it groves vertically as the water falls under gravity. Qfl247 (talk) 03:24, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, this is understood to be initally a weathering phenomena. Look up Paradise, chapter 7 "Taffoni and other rock basins" in Volume 4, of Treatise in Geomorphology (Elsevier). Wind may have been involved in removing some of the resulting weathered debris.--130.68.132.239 (talk • contribs) 19:08, 21 November 2013‎ (UTC)[reply]

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* Needs inline citation, and further editing for NPOV and encyclopedic style. -- Paleorthid (talk) 17:31, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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