Florida is chock full of amazing phenomena. We’ve got the Lake Wales Ridge, an ancient sand dune stretching down the center ...

Great Sand Dunes National Park sits in the San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado, cradled between the towering Sangre de ...

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The City of Oceanside is testing a coastal dune restoration pilot project to help protect its beaches from erosion by ...

What can sand dunes on Earth and Mars teach us about the latter’s wind behavior and atmosphere? This is what a recently awarded NASA grant hopes to address as a PhD student at Texas A&M University ...

(Phys.org) —A team made up of members from research facilities in France and China has found that theoretical models built to describe sand dune formation align very closely with how they actually ...

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GULF SHORES, Ala. (WKRG) — Officials with Gulf State Park are collecting old Christmas trees to be used to create sand dunes. Real trees can be dropped off at the park’s beach pavilion until the end ...

Some of the wind-sculpted sand ripples on Mars are a type not seen on Earth, and their relationship to the thin Martian atmosphere today provides new clues about the atmosphere’s history. The ...

Formed from windblown dry sands, dunes are meant to protect inland areas, acting as a first line of defense from flooding. The small ridges or hills of sand, usually found at the top of a beach, take ...