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  2. Asian Dust - Wikipedia

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    Asian Dust (also yellow dust, yellow sand, yellow wind, kosa or China dust storms) is a meteorological phenomenon that affects much of East Asia year-round and especially during the spring months. The dust originates in the deserts of China , Mongolia , and Kazakhstan , where high-speed surface winds and intense dust storms kick up dense clouds ...

  3. Saharan dust - Wikipedia

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    Saharan dust (also African dust, yellow dust, yellow sand, yellow wind or Sahara dust storms) is an aeolian mineral dust from the Sahara, the largest hot desert in the world. The desert spans just over 9 million square kilometers, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea , from the Mediterranean Sea to the Niger River valley and the Sudan region ...

  4. Sarykum - Wikipedia

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    Sarykum or Sary-Kum (Russian: Сары-Кум, Kumyk: Sari Hum, meaning "Yellow sand") is a large sand dune located in the Kumtorkalinsky District of Dagestan, Russian Federation. [3] It is one of the largest sand dunes in Eurasia. The dune is located in a protected area, part of the Dagestan Nature Reserve, which was established on 9 January ...

  5. 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.

  6. Yellow Sands - Wikipedia

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    Yellow Sands may refer to: Yellow Sands; Yellow Sands; Members of the Yellow Sand Society, a Chinese secret society; See also "Come Unto ...

  7. Mongolian death worm - Wikipedia

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    An interpretation of the Mongolian death worm by Belgian painter Pieter Dirkx. A Tartar sand boa, possible inspiration for the legend. The Mongolian death worm (Mongolian: олгой-хорхой, olgoi-khorkhoi, "large intestine-worm") is a creature alleged to exist in the Gobi Desert.

  8. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The Huffington Post

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    Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come, walking right into a deadly ambush. Here’s Nick, pausing in a lull.

  9. List of sandstones - Wikipedia

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    Adams Gate at Bamberg Cathedral made of Burgpreppach Sandstone Quarry in Worzeldorf (Nuremberg). Abtswind Sandstone: on the Friedrichsberg near Abtswind; Burgpreppach Sandstone: Burgpreppach