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Saguache County – name comes from the Ute language noun "sawup" / s ə ˈ w ʌ p / meaning "sand dunes". [a] City of Saguache; Saguache Creek; Yuma County – named for the Quechan people of Arizona and California. City of Yuma
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coarser than silt. Sand can also refer to a textural class of soil or soil type; i.e., a soil containing more than 85 percent sand-sized particles by mass. [2]
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
Their name comes from the Illinois mihsoori, meaning "dugout canoe". [19] Nelson: Named for Robert Nelson, a ship's master who died at the mouth of the river in 1612. Ottawa: Named for the Ottawa people, a community of the Algonquian nation, who lived along the river until 1685.
Misaki Jurai (美砂樹), a character in the anime Tenchi Muyo!; Misaki Suzuhara (みさき), the main character in the anime Angelic Layer; Misaki Takahashi (美咲), a male main character in the anime Junjou Romantica
Sands is an English and Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Benjamin Aymar Sands (1853–1917), American lawyer; Benjamin F. Sands (1811–1883), officer in the United States Navy during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War
The word is derived from the Arabic word ʿirq (عرق), meaning "dune field". [2] Strictly speaking, an erg is defined as a desert area that contains more than 125 km 2 (48 sq mi) of aeolian or wind-blown sand [3] and where sand covers more than 20% of the surface. [2] Smaller areas are known as "dune fields". [4]
Kalahari is derived from the Tswana word Kgala, meaning "the great thirst", or Kgalagadi, meaning "a waterless place"; [1] the Kalahari has vast areas covered by red sand without any permanent surface water.