Last summer, Stephanie McNamara got her first glimpse of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado. The park is a monument to sand, where dunes stretch across 30 square miles ...

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 ...

On a cold winter day in December 2007, a bulldozer flattened nearly 40 acres (16 hectares) of Inner Mongolia's Tengger Desert. It was the start of a unique experiment: For the first time, scientists ...

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 ...

Aeolian sand transport dynamics encompasses the study of wind‐driven sediment movement, which is fundamental to understanding landscape evolution in arid and semi‐arid environments. Research in this ...

(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 ...