They are the largest active sand surface in Canada ... Any pictures I've seen from the dunes are amazing, depicting scenery unlike any I've seen before. This hidden Saskatchewan treasure is ...

On the south side of the river, a large dune stood where the present National Guard Armory is located and completely blocked First and Second Streets.

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 ...

Sand dunes are a natural part of the habitat at Sandbanks and help prevent flooding and coastal erosion Views are being sought on the future of sand dunes at a popular tourist hotspot. Sandbanks ...

How can something that is constantly shifting stand up to 750 feet tall? This southwestern park features the largest sand dunes in North America, and the key to their extraordinary height seems to lie ...

I’ve trudged through the Athabasca Sand Dunes in the very northwest and watched birds in the Saskatchewan River Delta, the ...

Sand grains that are very round and dry (moisture on the dune's surface can cause sand to clump together, inhibiting avalanching) Grains on the dune's surface that are "well sorted," meaning they ...

this issue). Sand deposition, accretion, and erosion within the coastal environment result in the development of a variety of dune morphologies; however, a general classification into primary and ...

The sands dunes have made way for housing and roads in the past 150 years A project to restore sand dunes in Lancashire has been hailed a success by conservationists. Over the last 150 years ...

Aa Aa Aa For large-scale coastal dune development there needs to be a suitable wind regime, large reserves of sand and suitable nearshore, beach and back beach morphology (Pye 1983, Iversen ...

Appearances can be deceiving. At first glance, you'd never think the rolling white sand dunes of southeastern New Mexico and west Texas held the largest stand of oak in the country. The region's ...

This location provided a series of challenges for the Earth from Space crew. Not least because of the desert-like sand dunes that spread out for miles beyond the horizon, but because the weather ...