[BBell]

"No one had ever thought that wind could be this effective," said Kapp, a UA associate professor of geosciences. "You won't read in a textbook that wind is a major process in terms of breaking down rock material."

That's odd. I learned as a child that wind erosion was a major factor in shaping rocks and land topography.

[Bernard Marx]

That's odd. I learned as a child that wind erosion was a major factor in shaping rocks and land topography.

I guess my 1950s college geology professors were far ahead of their time. I learned about the tremendous erosional power of wind back then, in the "olden days."