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While that wind on the beach can make a mess, it also makes dunes and these are important!
Great Sand Dunes National Park has the tallest dunes in North America, but they aren’t the park’s only stars.
Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a ...
A new study shows that sand dunes can serve as repositories of fire history and aid in expanding scientific understanding of fire regimes around the world.
Great Sand Dunes National Park has the tallest dunes in North America, but they aren’t the park’s only stars.
OGDEN DUNES | The town's beach needs nourishment, but any sand or sediment placed along its shores through the dredging of Burns Waterway needs to be tested again to ensure ...
To determine the star dune’s age, the team used luminescence dating techniques to pinpoint the last time that minerals in the sand were exposed to sunlight.
As the scarp slope retreats, it supplies sediment that continues building up the dunes and transporting sand landwards across the older dunefield.
Star dunes are common, but scientists have long wondered about their formation and puzzling absence in the geological record. Now, research has revealed new clues.
TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. — The storm that hit Pinellas County last weekend severely eroded new beach sand dunes which cost more than $26 million to reconstruct after Hurricane Idalia brushed by the ...
Mount Baldy is going on a diet and getting a vegetation toupee to become more presentable. Indiana Dunes National Park Superintendent Jason Taylor outlined plans Monday night at the Indiana Dunes ...
Every summer at the beach, sand becomes an essential ingredient in the recipe for fun. But what the heck is it?