The composition of the sand grains makes it one of the few coastal locations where this happens. Although not a beach, the ...

The Silver Lake Sand Dunes Apple & BBQ Festival was named by USA Today's 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards as one of the best ...

Rock Springs Trail–A 1.0-mile trail exploring Rock Springs. Kelso Dunes–A 3-mile roundtrip hike exploring a popular sand dune ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

Number of acres for oil and gas leasing deferred in 2018 due to lack of consultation regarding lands owned by the Navajo Nation Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve protects over 100,000 acres ...

Listen to croaking sand Unlike the haunting so-called booming sands that Marco Polo and others discovered among the isolated dunes of storied deserts, the noises sand makes are not always mellifluous.

Primary dunes are composed of sand blown directly from the beach face (active beach), whereas secondary dunes develop following the subsequent modification of primary dunes. Davies (1980 ...

The difference is a matter of size: ripples are small ridges of sand with a height (amplitude) typically less than 4 cm and wave lengths (crest to crest) less than 60 cm, while dunes have the same ...

The Sand Scorpions Off-Road Vehicle Group will hold its bounty hole and freestyle competition this Saturday at the Moses Lake Sand Dunes. The event is properly called the Half-Sun Travel Plaza $5,000 ...

Contemporary research in coastal dunes and aeolian processes. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Vol. 49, Issue. 1, p. 108. Sand dunes are a globally important depositional landform and ...

Appearances can be deceiving. At first glance, you'd never think the rolling white sand dunes of southeastern New Mexico and west Texas held the largest stand of oak in the country. The region's ...

In addition, these sand dunes act as a vital natural barrier to the power of the waves. As sand dunes establish, plants start to form and grow in size along the sand dune. Primary vegetation gives ...