This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara Desert that is slowly being circled by ...

Make the thrilling journey into this Alaskan national park and prepare to be awestruck by a natural setting that seems both ...

dunes of various size and morphology are formed (for processes on aeolian transports see Sloss et al. this issue). Sand deposition, accretion, and erosion within the coastal environment result in ...

Without plants, the stable hills of sand people recognize as dunes would not form. “It would be like the very open, shifting sand environment that you see on Arrakis,” Hacker said.

The growth of the pioneer species is actually stimulated by sand deposition, and plant species type is important in determining the morphology or form of the dune (Ranwell 1972, Hesp 1991 ...

Now scientists have discovered that a dune called Lala Lallia in Morocco formed 13,000 years ago ... is located in the Erg Chebbi sand sea in south-east Morocco. It is 100m high and 700m wide ...