The weather impact was exacerbated by decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, cover crops and other techniques to prevent wind erosion.

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They had not been rounded off by wind and erosion in an Earthlike atmosphere.

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The formation of table mountains is a result of the erosion of softer rocks by wind and rain.

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