THE vegetation of a sand dune is unique not only because of the ... so that the plant succession can be ascer tained with certainty.

They found that the star dune formed 13,000 years ago in the Erg Chebbi sand sea in southeast Morocco, now reaching about 100 m high and 700m wide. Scientists found that the sands have grown ...

Erin Argyilan was wrapping up a scientific study of wind speeds on Mount Baldy last year when she saw a circle of beachgoers on their knees halfway up the hulking sand dune. They appeared to be ...

Using radar scans and analysis of sand grains buried deep inside the star dune, scientists mapped the mound’s internal structure. The researchers calculated that the oldest part of the dune’s ...

He had dropped through the dune and was trapped. As his friends and family were on their knees, digging the sand, the hole collapsed ... You can climb up the Succession Trail to soak up the ...

Languages: English, Spanish A historic shipwreck has been discovered after emerging from beneath a sand dune, according to a recent study. The wreck, which represents the remains of a roughly 90 ...

A teenager who became trapped after a sand dune collapsed and buried him on Saturday has died, the National Park Service said in a statement. The 17-year-old boy from Chesapeake, Virginia ...

And for frackers, finding enough drivers with commercial licenses to haul all that sand is an expensive challenge. This situation birthed the Dune Express, the massive conveyor belt that starts ...

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 ...