Mars has always captured human imagination with its striking red hues and mysterious landscapes. Recent images from NASA’s ...

Some of the world's tallest sand dunes are located in the Sahara Desert ... Despite their prominence, the process of their formation has long puzzled scientists. A recent investigation by a ...

this issue). Driftwood sometimes forms the focus for the initial accumulation of dune sand, but vegetation is the most common roughness element that contributes to the formation of incipient dunes ...

and the sand plains at the rear of transgressive dunes or between dune ridges, are usually relatively flat. Vegetation is a significant controlling factor influencing the formation and morphology ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

This reserve also contains examples of the successional stages of dune formation, from bare sand, embryonic dunes to (further inland) stabilised dunes and slacks. The site is managed by Natural ...

With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

Dunes are considered to be essential for coastal protection. In countries like the Netherlands, where one third of the ...

conveyer belt to transport millions of tons of sand for hydraulic fracturing. The belt the company named “The Dune Express” runs from tiny Kermit, Texas, and across state borders into Lea ...

Mars, even to the casual observer, bears a striking resemblance to Death Valley in satellite imagery, featuring sand dunes, salt flats, and playas. Like Death Valley, the Martian surface is actively ...

has installed a 42-mile conveyor belt to transport millions of tons of sand for hydraulic fracturing. The belt, which the company named “The Dune Express,” runs from tiny Kermit, Texas ...

A more than 40-mile long conveyor belt filled with sand stretches from the oil fields of West Texas to New Mexico, all for the purpose of one mission: oil production ...