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"Wind-eroded soil produces strange plant forms in Death Valley, California. The wind swept desert soil away from the roots of these 'arrow weeds,' leaving them atop dry hummocks with thirsty tendrils clawing downward to the vanishing soil" (quote from Barnett, 1955).
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