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A national monument until 2019, White Sands National Park is home to the largest gypsum dune field in the world – gypsum being a soft sulfate mineral used in materials like plaster. The 275 ...
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.
Sections of White Sands National Park in New Mexico remain closed after a U.S. Air Force F-16 jet crashed in the area.. White Sands past mile marker 3 has remained closed to the public since the ...
Map of the Tularosa Basin (light blue) and its landmarks, in southern New Mexico and West Texas, U.S. White gypsum sand and Yucca (Yucca elata) plants, in Tularosa Basin at White Sands National Park. The Tularosa Basin is a graben basin in the Basin and Range Province and within the Chihuahuan Desert , east of the Rio Grande in southern New ...
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World is a 2016 travel book written by Geoff Dyer. [1] The book was previously titled White Sands. The writer described the book as a mixture of fiction and non-fiction. The book's narration begins in Tahiti. [2] White Sands is a collection of travel-related essays, short stories, photographs and ...
White Sands is a census-designated place (CDP) in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. [2] It consists of the main residential area on the White Sands Missile Range. As of the 2010 census the population of the CDP was 1,651. [4] It is part of the Las Cruces Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Two of the state's most popular national parks — Carlsbad Caverns and White Sands — were listed among the 10 worst in the country for air quality out of almost 400 examined. ... In Other News ...
Lake Lucero with the San Andres Mountains to the west. National Park Service photo. [1] Selenite crystals that formed as the lake water evaporated. Lake Lucero is a playa located within that section of the Tularosa Basin that is contained within White Sands National Park in the U.S. state of New Mexico.