Talk:Sastrugi

Title change?
'Sastrugi' is the rather more commonly encountered term in English language literature so far as I am aware - though a WP search for 'sastrugi' redirects to 'zastruga' currently, the former might be the better title for this article. Searches on the two terms show a four to one bias towards 'sastrugi'. cheers Geopersona (talk) 06:17, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Support - I would favor moving and redirecting to Sastrugi, as that is the spelling preferred by every English dictionary. Krychek (talk) 14:51, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Discrepancy
The lede says that sastrugi form perpendicular to the wind direction; the sea ice section says parallel. Can someone clarify this? Is it just a goof, or is there a different mechanism at work on sea ice that produces differently oriented formations?

Also, in accordance with the current title, I edited to use sast- instead of zast- throughout. Gould363 (talk) 03:55, 25 January 2016 (UTC)


 * "Google is your friend" and be Bold.  WurmWoode  T   04:12, 7 February 2017 (UTC)


 * It must be perpendicular - otherwise, there are no windward or leeward sides. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.163.88.159 (talk) 02:22, 21 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Both the claim that it's parallel and the claim that there's a windward and a leeward side are cited, but it still seems like a contradiction. How can either side face the wind if the ridge extends in the same direction as the wind? Regardless of whether it's true or not, the current text clearly fails to explain it properly. Alltat (talk) 22:04, 27 January 2018 (UTC)