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English: During sunset in the desert shadows from sand dunes can get several km long, while shadows from people can get hundreds meters long. Dakhla Oasis, Egypt. Libyan Desert forms the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert, the world's largest hot desert. Libyan Desert is one of the driest, harshest and most remote parts of the Sahara.
Panorama showing the transition of flat desert to dunes. Erg Chebbi (Arabic: عرق الشبي) is one of Morocco's several ergs – large seas of dunes formed by wind-blown sand. It is located on the far western edge of the Sahara Desert. [1] There are several other ergs in Morocco, such as Erg Chigaga near M'hamid.
The Kelso Dunes are composed of five stacked sets of dunes, each set corresponding to a period of climate change over the last 25,000 years. During dry climate episodes, a decrease in stabilizing vegetation exposed surface sand to wind erosion, which ultimately brought the sand to the dunes (most of the eastern part of the Kelso dunes was formed when nearby Soda Lake and Silver Lake dried into ...
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 ...
Pachies Ammoudies of Lemnos or Sand dunes of Lemnos (Greek: Παχιές Αμμουδιές της Λήμνου or Αμμοθίνες της Λήμνου), also referred to as the Lemnos Desert, are sand dunes on the island of Lemnos in northern Greece. The dunes are spread over an area of about 70 decares (7 hectares).
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Samalayuca Dune field, 2018. See detail image, below. Scale bar is 5 km. Samalayuca dunes detail. Scale bar (lower left) is 1 km. The Samalayuca Dune Fields, more traditionally known as Los Médanos (the dunes), or more recently referenced as Médanos de Samalayuca are a series of large but separated fields of sand dunes located in the northern part of the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
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