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- noun In the southwestern US, a
slope , specifically part of apiedmont slope made of rocky detritus.
Etymologies
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Examples
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At the foot of a rockslide on the edge of the bajada was a small piece of something blue.
No Country For Old Men McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- 2005
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In the upper bajada (lower slopes) they are coarse-textured, rocky, well-drained and partly "laid by rock bench."
Desert biome 2007
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In the lower bajada (bottom land) the soil is sandy and fine-textured, often with "caliche hardpan."
Desert biome 2007
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McIntyre looked toward the chopper and he looked down the bajada toward the other vehicles.
No Country For Old Men McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- 2005
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He raised his head and looked out across the bajada.
No Country For Old Men McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- 2005
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The helicopter arrived and circled and set down in a whirl of dust out on the bajada.
No Country For Old Men McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- 2005
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They walked around in the bajada looking at the shot-up trucks.
No Country For Old Men McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- 2005
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He backed out of the truck and stood looking over the bajada in the moonlight.
No Country For Old Men McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- 2005
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The air of the bajada is so aridly pure that I can hear either of them clear his throat at two hundred yards.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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At the bases of many cardons on this bajada, consequently, are the picked-over carcasses of drought-killed chuckwallas.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
hernesheir commented on the word bajada
The geomorphology of the Death Valley area leaps to mind.
September 26, 2010