How is desert pavement formed?
A)Deflation and sheet wash remove fine-sized materials leaving coarse, weathered, rock fragments concentrated at the surface.
B)Blowing wind removes fine-size soil particles; coarser particles abrades to sand size.
C)Running water deposits gravel and sand over the finer-sized soil particles.
D)Intense chemical weathering removes the sand- and silt-sized particles, leaving coarse rock debris covering the land surface.

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Desert pavement is formed through a process of deflation, where wind erodes and removes the fine-sized materials such as sand, leaving behind the coarse rock fragments on the surface. This has the effect of creating a hardened, pavement-like surface covering the land.

How Is Desert Pavement Formed