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Barkhan vs Barchan - What's the difference?

barkhan | barchan | Alternative forms |

Barchan is a alternative form of barkhan.



As nouns the difference between barkhan and barchan

is that barkhan is an alternative spelling of barchan while barchan is an arc-shaped sand ridge comprised of well-sorted sand.

barkhan

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 844:
    • The structure out here was revealed immediately—desert punctuated by oases in a geography of cruelty, barkhans or traveling sand-dunes a hundred feet high, which might or might not possess consciousness

    barchan

    English

    (wikipedia barchan)

    Alternative forms

    * barkhan

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An arc-shaped sand ridge comprised of well-sorted sand.
  • * 1966 , Edwin Sherbon Hills, Arid Lands: A Geographical Appraisal , page 72,
    • The sand is usually very well sorted in barchans', for it is constantly re-worked as the dune ‘marches’. The marching also causes cross-bedding inside the ' barchan , with a dip parallel to the sand-fall face.
  • *1988 , (Robert Irwin), The Mysteries of Algiers , Dedalus 1993, p. 69:
  • *:But to follow the dunes around the foot of their slopes is also tedious and one can walk for half a kilometre east or west, finding one barchan linked to another and no easy way through […].
  • * 2008 , Julie Laity, Deserts and Desert Environments , page 205,
    • Barchans and transverse dunes are essentially of the same type, forming and migrating under a unidirectional wind regime. The difference between the two is related to the amount of sand: barchans are isolated mounds, whereas transverse dunes are composed of many barchans coalesced into a single, longer dune form (Tsoar 2001).
  • * 2010 , Robert S. Anderson, Suzanne P. Anderson, Geomorphology: The Mechanics and Chemistry of Landscapes , page 482,
    • Perhaps the most distinctive is the barchan' dune, an isolated crescentic form with arms that stretch downwind. ' Barchans are not huge, often with heights of only a few meters.