Sentences with phrase «dune field in»

There is a relict dune field in Nebraska called the Sand Hills, now I guess part of our grain belt.

They appear uncannily alike in size and shape to dune fields in the Sahara, Namibia and Saudi Arabia.

David Thomas of the University of Oxford and his colleagues investigated what might happen to the immense dune fields in southern Africa over the coming years using three global climate models.

Start: Woody Cape, Alexandria State Forest Finish: mouth of the Great Fish River Duration: 80 km, 5 days Fitness: moderate to difficult Our tip: highlights include wild and deserted beaches, the largest shifting dune fields in the southern hemisphere, shipwrecks, and the Diaz Cross

Not exact matches

Global Surveyor also returned tantalizing evidence of recent shifting sands in dune fields first seen in Mariner 9 pictures of Mars from the early 1970s.

Scientists are interested in dune fields isolated within large impact craters because their dark color suggests that the dust covering much of the rest of the planet does not accumulate there.

Every once in a while, one dune may violently tumble into the mantle, revving up convection and disturbing the magnetic field.

This image shows researchers climbing with heavy field equipment to the top of the 200m - high Eureka Dune in Death Valley National Park, Calif..

«Our recent work involves using field and laboratory techniques to probe natural avalanching and sorting on large desert dunes in Qatar.»

Most authors consider booming sands a feature of warm dry climates, however, I have heard booming dunes in two cold climate fields — the Killpecker Dunes in Wyoming and the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado.

On top of the Supai group is the whitish / grayish Coconino Formation — a younger, thick sandstone layer, deposited in the mid-Permian, in giant wind - blown dune fields (such locations are also known as erg, Arabic for sea of sand).

This Mars Global Surveyor image shows a martian crater that has been encroached by a field of dark, wind - blown sand dunes in the Syrtis Major volcanic region of the red planet.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has taken measurements of Titan's dune fields and revealed that although the prevailing winds blow from east to west, dunes as high as 300 feet (91 meters) seem to build up in the opposite direction, likely formed by gusts of very strong «rogue» winds that occasionally blow in the opposite direction.

The surface is composed of three major types of terrain: bright, rough regions that are similar to Xanadu Regio, dark regions that are rich in water ice, and dark regions that are covered by fields of dunes.

Gale crater, where the Curiosity rover landed in 2012, features extensive dune fields around the base of Mount Sharp, and the rover is now approaching some of them for the first time; their dark color makes them stand out starkly against the surrounding terrain.

,» fascinating Dutch dark comedy «Borgman,» David Gordon Green «s «Joe,» Drake Doremus «undervalued «Breathe In,» top documentaries «Jodorowsky's Dune «and «Mistaken For Strangers,» Miyazaki «s swan song «The Wind Rises,» Ben Wheatley «s trippy «A Field In England,» rousing Chilean drama «Gloria, «the explicit and beautifully made «Stranger By The Lake,» and lovely Laos - set indie «The Rocket.»

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Field trips have been arranged to study dune formation, live oaks, and plants that grow and survive in desert - like conditions.

From the dirt and gravel of South Africa and the dunes of Dubai, to the muddy fields of Cheshire, and from -30 °C in the frozen North Cape to searing 50 °C desert heat, the Bentayga's ability to perform on any surface and even in the most extreme conditions has been proven.

«At Crissy [Field Wildlife Protection Area], we'll see the plovers out on the open beach by the water sometimes, and other times they are in the vegetated dunes,» Merkle says.

Among the dunes and the wide, sandy shores of Ocean Beach and the Crissy Field Wildlife Protection Area lies the overwintering grounds for one of the 37 federally endangered or threatened species in the Golden Gate National Parks — a six - inch shorebird called the Western snowy plover (Charadrius nivosus nivosus).

«For a time, my family lived in a one bedroom house left over from the oil - boom days located on a small lane by the ocean... Our porch opened to unkempt forests and fields, high dunes, and the endless play of light and texture of the Pacific.

Sand dunes and hills • Shoot interesting rock sculptures • Trees in a field • Snow - capped mountains • Creeks or brooks • Covered bridges • Freeway rush - hour traffic • Fields of flowers • A unique - looking plant, such as a desert cactus • Look for long, winding roads.

Robert von Hagge, famous for being the creator of one of the most outstanding golf courses in the world, designed this field of 6793 yards and par 72 with undulating canals, 12 bridges and a dune - evocative topography.

Reluctant at first to believe that de Kooning was not too strongly rooted in the 19th century - because my perceived role at the Whitechapel in the Fifties and Sixties was to try to help the English public, visually backward at the time, to see and understand the different phases of abstract art from Malevich and Mondrian on - I was totally converted by his 1959 show in New York at the Sidney Janis Gallery of blazing, light - drenched landscape canvases, based on the fields and dunes around the coastline of the Hamptons where de Kooning had acquired a studio.

Very low biomass (a drop below a 14 % cover threshold) is very likely to make the Kalahari desert dune system in southern Africa susceptible to aeolian erosion (Thomas and Leason, 2005) and, with regional warming of between 2.5 and 3.5 °C, most dune fields could be reactivated by 2100 (Thomas and Leason, 2005).

The magenta areas in the image are fields of sand dunes, and the orange area along the bottom is the surface of the South Atlantic Ocean.

Drive your ATV or dune buggy on the beach, in your backyard or in a field whenever you want.