Stage Sand Transport System Winds blowing over a dune can move grains of sand in three main ways. What path these grains take ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology (1962-1982), Vol. 8, No. 6 (December 1969), pp. 874-883 (10 pages) It is suggested that helical roll vortices in the atmosphere are responsible for the formation of the ...

A new study has uncovered the mystery of how mini sand dunes form on beaches and in deserts. A new study led by the University of Southampton and research institutes in France has uncovered the ...

Last summer, Stephanie McNamara got her first glimpse of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado. The park is a monument to sand, where dunes stretch across 30 square miles ...

THE Israeli city of Ashdod has all the features found in a modern metropolis. Shopping malls, theatres, nightclubs, bars, plenty of good schools. But there is something else, too. Every weekend, at ...

Figure 1: The landscape-scale experiment site in the Tengger Desert. Figure 3: Morphology and dynamics of individual dunes according to seasonal winds. Figure 4: Oblique bedform alignment and lateral ...

I'm neck-deep in one of those weeks where it feels like I can barely stop and rest for a minute, much less write a blog post worth reading. So, instead, here are some striking images of sand dunes in ...

The giant sand dunes that form in deserts around the world can only grow so big, according to a new study. Interactions with a thin atmospheric layer that floats kilometres above the ground stop the ...

Dust storms are a common occurrence in the deserts of northern China and previous researchers have attempted to locate the most important sources of dust. Dust is important from a variety of ...

(CNN) — Across sweeping desert vistas, spectacular star dunes stand out. The distinctive mounds are among the tallest sand dunes on Earth, and their pyramid shapes are sculpted by a crossfire of winds ...

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