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Figure Caption (A) Varnished flaked cobble from the west bank of the Colorado River near Laughlin in the Mojave Desert of western USA. (B) Varnished fluvial boulder from the north flank of Tian Shan in the Gürbantongüt Desert of western China. (C) Varnished rocks on a desert pavement surface near Timna in the Negev Desert of southern Israel. (D) Varnished glacial-fluvially polished boulder from Rio Mendoza Valley in the Patagonia Desert of central Argentina.
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Figure Caption (A) Varnished colluvial boulder deposits near Ludlow, California. (B) Varnished debris-flow fan deposits in Death Valley, California. (C) Varnished desert pavement surfaces in Cima Volcanic Field, California. (D) Varnished bar-and-swale alluvial-fan surfaces in Vidal Valley, California.
Figure Caption (A) Paired and unpaired strath fluvial terraces of the Kuitun He at the Dushanzi anticline on the north flank of the Tian Shan. The numbers behind terrace labels (i.e., I, II, III) are terrace heights above the modern river bed. The Kuitun He has incised roughly 150 m into the late Quaternary river gravels and underlying southward-dipping late Cenozoic bedrock since the abandonment of river terrace II. Dark gravels on the top of the hills mark remnants of terrace III, the highest and also the oldest preserved terrace of the Kuitun He. (B) Varnished fluvial boulders and cobbles on terrace I-5 in (A). (C) A close-up view of a varnished fluvial cobble.
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Figure Caption (A) Varnished hillslope deposits near the mouth of Nahal Zeelim, Dead Sea Rift. (B) Varnished ruins of the Roman military camp near Masada, Dead Sea Rift. (C) Varnished desert pavement surfaces on the west bank of the Dead Sea Rift. (D) Varnished desert pavement surfaces in southern Israel.
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Figure Caption (A) Varnished terminal moraines in Horcones Valley, central Argentina. (B) Varnished morainal boulders in Rio Mendoza Valley, central Argentina. (C) Varnished terminal moraines in Rio Atuel Valley, southern Argentina. (D) Varnished morainal boulder in Rio Atuel Valley, southern Argentina.