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Title: Turning Convention On Its Head Using Abrasion for Material Deposition
Author: John O'Donoghue, Liam O'Neill, EnBIO
Source: TSP, Vol 23 / Issue 4, Fall 2009
Publication year 2009
Document number: 2009032
Number of pages: 2
Abstract:
Abrasion is one of the tremendous forces of nature that has helped to shape our world, ranking alongside water and ice in terms of its sheer erosive power. In dry climates,
sand-laden winds have sculpted the rock with a raw cutting force, creating shapes and features that awe and inspire. These same forces are often considered to be
destructive, defacing the efforts of man to shape his world—literally so in the case of the Sphinx of Giza whose facial features have succumbed to the ravages of erosive
sandblasting.
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