Proceedings of the 2015 International Forum on Energy, Environment Science and Materials

Sand Morphology Distribution Characteristics of the Southwest Buguli Desert

Authors
Xiangling Zhou, Wei Zhang, Shengqing Yu
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Xiangling Zhou
Available Online September 2015.
DOI
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2015 International Forum on Energy, Environment Science and Materials
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
September 2015
ISBN
978-94-6252-117-9
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.176How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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