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Star dunes with a rough pyramidal shape and ridges at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. Star dunes are pyramidal sand mounds with slipfaces on three or more arms that radiate from the high center of the mound. They tend to accumulate in areas with multidirectional wind regimes. [25] Star dunes grow upward rather than laterally.
The Dune saga is set thousands of years in humanity's future.Faster-than-light travel has been developed, and humans have colonized a vast number of worlds. However, a great reaction against computers has resulted in a ban on any "thinking machine", with the creation or possession of such punishable by immediate death.
The audio track, created by Stéphane Picq and Philip Ulrich, was released by Cryo (formerly Exxos) on the album Dune: Spice Opera. It was followed the same year by Dune II, which ultimately set the standard for the genre of real-time strategy video games. [1] [2]
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These relic sand dunes created over thousands of years by the dynamic movements of sea, ice and wind now provide refuge for rare and endangered plants and animals. Although consisting of a variety of habitats from low and wet bayheads to high and dry sandhills, the ridge is most famous for its scrub habitat. Wildlife and plants once isolated on ...
The Algodones Dunes is a large sand dune field, or erg, located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of California, near the border with Arizona and the Mexican state of Baja California. The field is approximately 45 miles (72 km) long by 6 miles (9.7 km) wide and extends along a northwest-southeast line that correlates to the ...
Giant current ripples (GCRs), also known as giant gravel bars or giant gravel dunes, [1] are a form of subaqueous dune. They are active channel topographic forms up to 20 m high, which occur within near- thalweg areas of the main outflow routes created by glacial lake outburst floods . [ 2 ]
The Dunes made film appearances as well, including the 1971 James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever, in which it serves as the office of Whyte House casino manager Bert Saxby. [303] The Dunes sign also makes an appearance in the film, [304] and a deleted scene, available on home media releases, takes place in the Dome of the Sea restaurant. [303]