Saltation moves soil grains in repeated short hops close to the ground and typically accounts for the dominant transported fraction. Their impacts also initiate creep and release finer suspended particles. Suspension carries finer dust and creep moves larger grains, but neither is the intended dominant fraction. Hence **B**.
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