Downtime can consist of sitting under sun-baked skies for hours, playing pickup sports, evaluating data, or visiting landmarks whilst awaiting convective initiation.
Desert varnish is a thin coating (patina) of manganese, iron and clays on the surface of sun-baked boulders.
When in very badly deteriorated condition and improperly stored (e.g., in a sun-baked shed), nitrate film can even spontaneously combust.
Mudstone looks like hardened clay and, depending upon circumstances under which it was formed, it may show cracks or fissures, like a sun-baked clay deposit.
Sun-baked bricks made up the core of the ziggurat with facings of fired bricks on the outside.
