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  2. Dune - Wikipedia

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    The Killpecker sand dunes of the Red Desert in southwestern Wyoming. Jockey's Ridge State Park – on the Outer Banks, North Carolina. The Great Dune found in Cape Henlopen State Park in Lewes, Delaware. Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area near Florence, Oregon, on the Pacific Coast. Bruneau Dunes State Park – Owyhee Desert, Idaho

  3. Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve - Wikipedia

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    The dune field is composed of reversing dunes, transverse dunes—also called crescentic or barchan dunes—and star dunes. The sand sheet is the largest component of the system, comprising sandy grasslands that extend around three sides of the dune field.

  4. Erg (landform) - Wikipedia

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    Erg Chebbi, Morocco Major dune seas of the Sahara in yellow, Great Sand Sea.Red dashed line shows approximate limit of the Sahara. Sand seas and dune fields generally occur in regions downwind of copious sources of dry, loose sand, such as dry riverbeds and deltas, floodplains, glacial outwash plains, dry lakes, and beaches.

  5. The dunes are just the beginning of what’s so great about ...

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    The dunes are believed to be remnants of a massive lake, Laka Alamosa, that dried up roughly 440,000 years ago, according to the park’s website.Over time, the park says wind, water and sediment ...

  6. White Sands National Park - Wikipedia

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    White Sands National Park is a national park of the United States located in New Mexico and completely surrounded by the White Sands Missile Range.The park covers 145,762 acres (227.8 sq mi; 589.9 km 2) in the Tularosa Basin, including the southern 41% of a 275 sq mi (710 km 2) field of white sand dunes composed of gypsum crystals.

  7. Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area - Wikipedia

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    The Oregon Dunes are a unique area of windswept sand. They are the largest expanse of coastal sand dunes in North America and one of the largest expanses of temperate coastal sand dunes in the world, [2] with some dunes reaching 500 feet (150 m) above sea level. They are the product of millions of years of erosion by wind and rain on the Oregon ...

  8. Archaeologists Found a Lost Temple in the Sand That Solves a ...

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    Archaeologists discovered a 4,000- to 5,000-year-old ceremonial temple within a sand dune in Peru. Tucked between the ruin’s walls, the excavation team located burial remains of three humans.

  9. Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park - Wikipedia

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    The Athabasca Sand Dunes are estimated to be approximately 8,000 years old, formed near the end of the last glacial period. [2] As glaciers receded, meltwater washed enormous quantities of sand, silt and sediment from local sandstone into Lake Athabasca, whose water level was at the time much higher than currently.

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