The age of one of Earth's largest and most complex types of sand dune has been calculated for ... After its initial formation, it stopped growing for about 8,000 years and then quickly expanded ...

Sand dunes are a globally important depositional landform ... years of field research on desert dunes and his keen insights on the ‘big-picture’ of dune formation and change make him the best ...

MUNISING, MI -- The views from Michigan‘s sand dunes are exceptional and that’s because the state is home to a rare formation of perched dunes. The Grand Sable Dunes in the Pictured Rocks ...

From the edge of space, the Sahara Desert looks like it belongs more on the planet Mars than Earth, with the red-tinged dune ...

It’s a short hike that loops through the grasslands in front of the sand dunes and has a series of educational panels explaining the dune field and its formation. This great photo-op spot will give ...

World News Today points out that the granular quality of the sand, variably small to medium ... including the dunes' formation and adjacent mountainous terrains, which concentrate wind currents ...

After its initial formation, it stopped growing ... dating to work out the age of the star dune. The method calculates when the grains of sand were last exposed to daylight. Samples of sand ...