Desert pavement

Desert pavement in the Sahara (Mauretania)

The desert pavement (also named reg, serir or gibber (Australia), is a rocky desert surface. It is covered with closely packed, interlocking angular rock fragments of pebbles. The lightest fragments of rock have been blown away by the wind.

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