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Sentence Examples Here one sees grazing camels, a skeletal countryside of abandoned walled towns, dunes, and shimmering mirages. It is generally agreed that the linear dunes in the Namib Sand Sea have extended from south to north. It does have sand and sand dunes, but primarily that red, raw earth that we see so often in paintings. It grows on upper shores or in wet hollows in sand dunes, on the West coasts of Wales and southern England. After a journey of many hours across sand dunes and pock-marked roads, we arrived in the village of Bananey. On this part of the coast the dunes of the Namib Desert come right down to the sea. Those who were ahead of us entered an erg of dunes and Gio and I took a better path. The Old Course wasn't built, it simply evolved, a combination of scrubby seaside turf, wispy grasses, prickly gorse and rolling dunes. It's accessible, with big dunes right off U.S.101, and a full-service shop that rents, sells, and manufactures sandboards. Mixed in among the terraces, levees, and ponds are long, narrow dunes formed by onshore winds funneled upriver. The Pacific silverweed prefers sunny coastal dunes to marsh edges, sandy bluffs, wetland meadows and mudflats. A sharp stab of hunger gnawed at Vincent's gut as he trudged along the dunes of sand that rose and fell like waves frozen in time. By contrast, the large, structureless, fossil-rich sandstones were formed by debris flows from huge, nonmigrating dunes. Sasha said little to Hardy, but gazed at him between bumps and slides along the dunes. As he described them to the nomads of the Empty Quarter, they thought of the hard dark dunes found in their own desert called barchan dunes. Passage begins on a wide seashore backed with dunes against a cloudless sky. Much of the western part of the country is polders that have been reclaimed from the sea by dikes and dunes. It was just light enough to see, but not to read, the signs in the sand dunes that warn the unwary beachgoer of snakes. And then there are laser beams and death stars and funny looking creatures with beady eyes that hide in sand dunes. The groundwater comes up to the surface, pools, and ponds, and deposits sulfate-rich sand, which blows away, creating sand dunes. Show More Sentences Ground penetrating radar provides an image of the subsurface showing the internal structure of dunes. To escape from the scorching, sultry summers of Delhi he would take his trainees to the sand dunes of the Yamuna at Okhla, South Delhi. I recognise that there is a fair bit of information to be absorbed there, but it is quite a lot like wading through sand dunes. It takes guts to take on a whole range of obstacles including dunes, wadis, muddy chotts and deep trenches. We parked the people mover, climbed out and set off through the strip of pine trees that ran parallel to the dunes. The smells of the peppermint groves, the sea and the sand dunes are almost palpable. Just off the road, the Aztec sandstone outcrops at Redstone Picnic Area are actually petrified sand dunes. At this point, the Apaches split up from each other and dropped down to ground level where they began to move forward, twisting around dunes. As the sun sets, the colour bleeds from the sand until the dunes are ghostly white. Discover the desert this spring, and explore the panoramas, sand dunes, and cinder cones of the Mojave National Preserve. Beautifully filmed, it opens in slow motion on windswept dunes before morphing into shots of an inner-city house. The air is heavy with the scent of dates and rain, and the umber of the dunes is brilliant against the grim sky. The Achnabourin Estate is set amid some wonderful scenery ranging from spectacular coastal dunes to heather clad hill. Sand dunes and higher river terraces were still preserved at that time and supported xerophilous vegetation. Then there are winter days when the east wind blows, scouring the sky of clouds and freezing the dunes hard as marble. On their lee sides some pans have clay dunes or lunettes composed of sandy, silty, clayey, and salty materials blown out from the pan floor. Romance surrounds the idea that incredible wealth lies hidden in rugged peaks, narrow box canyons, or shifting sands of desert dunes. The plan spends the bulk of its renourishment, artificial dunes, seawalls, groins and repairs to existing structures. We were dumped by some old Nissen huts at the edge of some sand dunes, looking out over a vast, sandy expanse of beach. Primrose, sunflowers, sand verbena, and a number of others we cannot yet identify have exploded upon the sand dunes. Show More Sentences Eventually, he reached a beach and dragged himself through sand dunes until he reached a disused campsite. There are dune buggies and motor bikes for careering over the dunes, a mock Mongolian yurt, and camels and Mongolian horses. Instead, it was swarming with motorcycles and dune buggies, punching it over ridges, plunging full-bore down the backside of the dunes. Sand dunes are particularly rich in flowers and are the most beautiful is the burnet rose. The funny climax, shot against the picturesque sand dunes of Dubai, is a mix of madness and mayhem. With its canted fairways framed by windswept dunes, Spanish Bay is a tribute to Scottish golf. Most of them are typical heliophile pioneer plants, occurring now in steppes, dunes or on bare limestone rocks. The terrain varied from dismal rows of dunes to baked claypan, rock-tiled wasteland to savage, waterless mountains. A new, 500-space parking lot is hidden amid grassy dunes on which saltgrass is growing in durable composition material. We parked at the edge of the dunes, and meandered for a moment, taking in the salt beneath the piscatory smell and stretching our legs. Geologists have studied the sand grains from modern desert dunes and under the microscope they often show pitted or frosted surfaces. The cross-bedded sandstones represent dunes from the dry intervals, when plant and animal life was less abundant. Since then, it has spread invasively and now covers over 44 percent of the habitat for two endangered plants on the Humboldt Bay dunes. Supplemented with some sea spinach harvested along the dunes, these went into a tasty flan I baked yesterday. Nothing but vast sand dunes and arid desert far as the eye could see in all directions. From the higher seats, visitors can glimpse stunning views of sand dunes and sparkling sea. However, Abner did catch sight of a hint of movement on the horizon, a smudge of black, far out across the sea of dunes. With no collection system, mountains of empty plastic bottles pile up in sand dunes behind its white sand beaches. Shot in black-and-white, this is a visually spare film featuring empty landscapes of sand dunes, sand storms, and unco-operative camels. Inland, a high central plateau drops eastward towards the vegetated dunes of the Kalahari Desert. Show More Sentences This half-day guided tour will bring them right onto the golden sand dunes of Arabia in four-wheel drives. There has been speculation the maverick Republicans use the isolated sand dunes along Ballyhornan beach to test fire guns and explosives. In the semi-arid context, dunes can revegetate quite naturally and quickly once the initial disturbance has been removed. The work could be viewed both from boats cruising the bay and from a deserted beach lined with sand dunes. For centuries the efforts of man and nature have created a series of shifting offshore sandbanks and coastal dunes. Arapaho Prairie represents typical upland dry sandhills prairie, with steep slopes grading into undulating dunes and flat valleys. Riders maneuver through a wilderness of rough terrain, brilliant sandstone formations, sand dunes, and wildlife. Just stroll down Boca Chica Beach, a remote stretch of beach and dunes surrounded by miles of brush and cactus. Desert dunes shift as winds pick up sand grains and dump them elsewhere, potentially turning vegetated land into desert. Towering sand dunes roll down to lily-strewn swampy lakes inhabited by Nile crocodiles. We were told that in the very worst weather, the waves broke over the dunes and splashed the windows. The roads follow these, sometimes cutting across dunes before rejoining the river. During winter, these birds roost and forage on beaches, dunes, and sandy and muddy flats of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. In addition, the lizards dig large burrows, which undermine sand dunes on the island. But I thought that the constant shifting of the dunes made it impossible to make a relief map of the area. Ironically, the dunes remaining are not the ones from which the famous aeronauts tried their flying machines. It shows fractured blocks of ancient sedimentary rock separated by recent sand dunes. We see them growing voluntarily in sand dunes and vacant lots, anywhere from two feet to five. A west wind blows biting flies out of the dunes and they build up at the water's edge. The action of the play takes place in a remote ramshackle beach house built on sand dunes. Show More Sentences There were also sand dunes and shingle banks that were later used for building roads in the new town. A scarped windward slope is the aspect most characteristic of coastal dunes. There were no more trees with which to lose his pursuers, only a stretch of stone, snow dunes, and mountainside. There is more to Rajasthan than just its royal splendour or amazing camel rides through never-ending sand dunes. The back beach and sand dunes are held by marram grass and, in the Nature Reserve, tree lupins have been planted for the same purpose. Titan's dunes bend around hills and upland plateaus, revealing how Titan's wind interacts with the topography. They are still failing to protect fragile dunes, shellfish beds, and nesting grounds from four-wheel drives. Around the rocky shores sea birds such as gulls, terns, cormorants, gannets and puffins nested in the cliffs and dunes. The problem was that the sand dunes feeding the ocean were the same dunes on which buildings now stood. Also, if I pushed it or pulled it, the lower trajectory of the ball would keep it from ballooning up and over the dunes. It has 8,000 kilometres of shores going from sand dunes to volcanic headlands. In a mix of vivid colours, the canvas depicts waterholes, dunes and rangelands special to several indigenous groups. The aeronauts tested a three-winged glider, but when the lower wing kept catching on the dunes Avery removed it. They watched as the colours of the dunes changed from yellow, to deep crimson, to pink and purple, then finally to the dark black of night. This pyrotechnical extension to the Great Wall glowed eerily under dark of night as the fire climbed up and over dunes. The katipo spider is a coastal sand dune specialist, and is mostly found on the dunes of warm sandy beaches. At Gold Bluffs Beach campground, 25 campsites hunker in the dunes, with a tent-flap view of powerful waves. With everything from sweeping sand dunes to craggy volcanic craters, it's undeniably dramatic. The group will face eight days of walking across rocky plateaus, sand dunes and salt pans. The vegetation varies, from beach grass and Virginia creeper stabilizing the dunes to eastern red cedar and even prickly pear. Show More Sentences Although beach plum's native range is restricted to coastal dunes, it grows quite well in Upstate New York, reports Whitlow. If these winds blew the same direction all the time, the dunes would line up crosswise to the breeze. Seventeen miles due west is the White Sands National Monument, 300 square miles of white gypsum dunes, the largest gypsum deposit in the world. Sand dunes develop ridges when the wind deposits a chance accumulation of sand grains. Park officials contend that off-leash dogs roam onto sensitive dunes, dig up plants, chase birds and rabbits, and harass sea lions. While monster-hunting on this far-flung island's shores in 1998, I was enthralled to see otters gambolling playfully in the sand dunes. Settled into a private beach on Nantucket Sound, this 14-room Cape Cod inn has a wraparound porch that faces rolling sand dunes and sea tides. Tall desert oaks grow in the swales between the dunes, and stately desert kurrajongs dot the rolling hills between the ranges. In the Sandy Pond area, you'll enjoy the beauty of fragile barrier beaches, dunes, lagoons, and freshwater marshes. The lads are covering a total distance of 144 miles, across sand, stones, mountains, dried lakes, river beds and dunes. Mary talked about making daisy chains and sliding down sand dunes in plastic bags. I wanted to ride out into the desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. All over the dunes I had noticed tiny little mounds that looked like anthills with no hole. I'd rather hoped that we would see the desert dunes of Maspalomas as part of our trek. I thought it odd that he kept on going into the soft dunes and not on the harder sand near the water. Both apparently got bitten by snakes while fleeing through the sand dunes at Pearly Beach last month, and died. It consists of flat rocky plains, rocky mesas in the south, and sandy dunes in the north. But it was this raft of feet and noise that followed a disappointed Charlie down through the kikuyu grass at the edge of the dunes. It's an otherworldly site, fringed with dunes and studded with bone-white calcium carbonate spires called tufa towers. The area consists of steep mountains rising to around 1,500 metres with flat valleys, and the area is peppered with sand dunes and dry lakes. Show More Sentences The best linksland, by contrast, is sand-based with towering dunes and endless slopes. Depending on their location, sagebrush lizards are saxicolous, arboreal, or generalize among different habitat types including sand dunes. For day after day south of Marzuk we saw nothing but stony wastes and sand dunes with never a blade of grass or bush to relieve the aridity. They scoured the dunes and nearby beach with binoculars to detect any sign of uncontrolled activity. Mouha, our charming guide, is from the ait Atta and was born in a black goat-hair tent in the Saharan dunes. These are not straggly, marram grass-threaded dunes as we know them. In the distance a cloud of sand and dust floated skyward and the repeated backfiring of an internal-combustion engine echoed over the rolling dunes. From the rainforests of Tasmania to the dunes of the Sahara, they swapped the pains and palaver of the 21st century for the pleasures of a purer planet. Once you are through the sand dunes, another smaller bay opens out. From the Jewish-Israeli perspective, he says, the New City was built entirely on empty sand dunes. It tackled steep inclines, rocky surfaces, muddy tracks and sand dunes with aplomb and at no time did I feel it would bog down or fail to scale rocky obstacles. The fuzziness was from the beer we drank after building bonfires in the dunes in the middle of the night. The island is approximately 54 km long and 1.2 km wide, with vegetated sand dunes along its length and both wide and narrow beaches around its perimeter. Parabolic dunes are formed when the wind causes a blowout, that is, begins to gouge sand out from around a patch of vegetation that has weakened its grip. A mix of habitats, from mixed woods to heath and sand dunes, has been created, and conifers are being removed from another 72 acres to extend the area of heathland. Entrants have to create vehicles that propel themselves, steer, navigate and negotiate potholes, ravines, sand dunes and boulders without any human intervention. Dinosaur bones are found littering sand dunes and dry lakebeds. We encourage our rugosa roses to spread prolifically, with new shoots emerging in our dunes every summer, as they tend to cover bare spots of sand with a plethora of color. Most of the pale green grass seen throughout the dunes is European beach grass, introduced around 1910 in Coos Bay to stabilize dunes at the mouths of navigable rivers. The modus operandi, they said, was for divers with aqualungs to collect perlemoen which they then took ashore at dusk in sacks and left in a hideout in the bush and dunes. Show More Sentences And volunteers are working around the clock at Fort Tilden beach in the Rockaways to fortify sand dunes. The canal itself was exactly what we had expected, a strip of water flanked on each side by sand dunes, and a stately procession of ships gliding quietly along. Snow lay thin on the dunes, while a black vulture cruised above my head. Although the dunes near Parker seem to be an extension of this same sandflow path, Muhs says that saltation couldn't carry grains of sand across the Colorado River. Among these on the newer dunes are sea-holly and sea bindweed, and at the edges of older dunes are slender centaury, knotted pearlwort and sea-heath. The pale moonlight shone on the sand as Kino stepped among the dunes. Its mud-flats, sand dunes and salt marshes attract an array of unusual birds, which accounts for the number of twitchers with binoculars and long-lens cameras on the island. Like his neighbours, Bennett loves his uninterrupted views across the dunes which stretch from Balmedie to the south to Foveran links to the north. We walk down the wooded dunes, and there, finally, is the gunmetal Baltic, Kaliningrad's point, symbolically shrouded in an undulating, enigmatic fog. Our tour operator drove 1,000 kilometres to meet us with a replacement guide, and we resumed our interrupted itinerary of dunes, game lodges and safari parks. The uneven topography alternated between blocks of ice mesas, deep ice craters, bony ice ridges, and rolling ice dunes glowing an otherworldly sapphire-blue. Fighting against well dug in troops and defences that had been prepared years in advance they clawed their way over the dunes and onto the coastlines and into the hedgerows. The point is that the industrial remains should be removed, the dunes rehabilitated and the rocks carted away so as to create more space for the public to enjoy. Pristine white beaches with beautiful bays are within easy reach, and although rooms are hard to come by in high summer, it is possible to camp on the dunes without incident. Ballybunion, for instance, has 36 holes in the dunes, but 18 of them are great and 18 are such that you couldn't persuade me to play them even with a shillelagh. The sand dunes had been nearly bare of vegetation and composed of completely open and mobile sand until 1982, because of heavy grazing by Bedouin herds. I followed Sean away from the beach, down the sandy paths where the marram grass gave way to bracken and scrubby trees, deeper and deeper into the dunes. He was part of a troop of lightweight Bren gun carriers whose job was to go out ahead of the army to locate the positions of German Panzer tanks hidden in the sand dunes. A steep sand cliff rose 50m from the coast to form a complex system of dunes fixed by marram grass with areas where competitors faced soft energy-sapping sand. They nest above the treeline, and when they leave the tundra, they find similar treeless habitat in prairies, agricultural areas, and coastal dunes. Show More Sentences The river down which we are gently chugging is clear and fairly shallow, about 200 metres wide, edged with reedy dunes, leading back to pine-forested gentle slopes. Earlier this year, army apaches shot up several convoys that refused to stop while navigating mountainous dunes near the border. After a few lessons in steering and stopping this grey beauty, she lolloped off at a leisurely pace through coastal dunes and down on to the beach, which we had to ourselves. Flanked by dunes and beaches, Ano Nuevo Point is the winter home for thousands of northern elephant seals, with bulls staging dramatic fights for breeding rights. We have also found smooth boisduvalia and chaffweed under irrigation pivots in cultivated fields, and sand verbena is found in open, shifting sand dunes. The sea buckthorn Hippophae rhamnoides should not be planted on sand dunes as its vigorous suckers can reduce species rich dunes to an impenetrable thorny thicket. The dunes harbour a number of freshwater lakes abundant in wildlife. The two figures stumbled across the dunes, buffeted by the wind and sand. As the sea level rose in the early to middle Holocene, dunes on the low-gradient shelf were transgressed and provided the core for the modern offshore sandy shoals. An enlarged parking area would facilitate day trippers and campers alike, and some sort of fence erection would hopefully stop motorised incursions into the dunes. I have walked the beach with the dogs when the wind howled across the sand, obliterating our footprints and forming ribs and patterns in the hollows and over the dunes. They had clambered over a large tract of huge sand dunes littered with tufts of hardy grass, and scattered clumps of cacti, but the sand soon gave way to mountain slopes. Now a team publishing in the 23 December print issue of PRL reports it has generated miniature replicas of crescent-shaped dunes known as barchans in a water tank. After the last ice age, sand dunes were deposited in the Rhine valley at what was to become the western edge of the city. Some types of crescentic dunes move more quickly over desert surfaces than any other type of dune. They build burrows in the supralittoral, from the water level up to the hillside dunes. In a major dust storm, dunes may move tens of metres through such sheet flows. The islands are marked by dunes and wide, sandy beaches towards the North Sea and a low, tidal coast towards the Wadden Sea. There are several distinct habitats within the Ythan Estuary complex including marsh, littoral, estuarine, lacustrine and dunes areas. Long stretches of beach, sand dunes, marshes, and maritime forests create a unique environment where wind and waves shape the topography. Show More Sentences It was found wandering in the desert, confused by the wind, the blowing sands of the barchan dunes. That meant a childhood spent among the sand dunes, re-enacting Legionnaire heroics. The SSSI is made up of mostly coastal dunes and salt marsh attracting breeding birds and a profusion of flowers. The sand is cold beneath our bare feet and the dunes damp and spicy with marram grass and saltbush. The campsite is located in the beautiful woodland and dunes area on the south Holland coast. From the high plains of North America to the Arabian peninsula, scientists are reading the dunes. Herein, I present such an analysis for a selected group of arthropods occurring on desert sand dunes. The reticulate surface looks like a network of connected wind-blown dunes and ripples. Sand dunes, the beach, the birds, the invertebrates and the strand line are connected like a chain. This includes the strange upwelling of fresh water at a series of oases in the middle of shifting sand dunes. A web site for Sandboard magazine promotes locations all around the world to enjoy dunes. Farther down the coast, the undeveloped dunes and black sage bushes of Crystal Cove State Park await riders. Dune-Buster, a four big wheel all-terrain wheelchair specially designed for dunes and slopping terrains. Losing the dunes would, of course, mean losing other rare species, including natterjack toads, sand lizards and tiger beetles. These include mulga, myall and black oak woodlands, chenopod shrublands, ephemeral wetlands and fringing dunes, and melaleuca drainages. Also skipping the sand dunes was Pelycosaur Ophiacodon, a flesh-eating reptile-cum-mammal, again only found in this county. Dasyceps Bucklandi and Pelycosaur Ophiacodon roamed the county's lagoons and sand dunes. Dingoes roam the rocky outcrops as the calls of shore birds echo behind the heath-covered dunes. New research from NASA suggests that certain geological features on Mars were formed by blocks of dry ice sliding down the sides of sand dunes. These areas include features similar to sand dunes and areas with sandy, erodible soils, with a thin organic layer of topsoil. Show More Sentences However, a lot of wildlife also depends on the cliffs, salt marshes and sand dunes of the adjoining shores, the seabed and the open sea itself. It is the most complex system of wetlands in Italy, containing wetlands, forest, dunes and salt pans. So-called icicle plants, their leaves thick and waxen, crept across the drifting dunes, adorning them with their own beautiful blooms. The last villagers left in the 1970s and todayOs in an unspoilt retreat with sandy beaches and machair I beach dunes covered in flowers. A sizeable portion of Denmark's terrain consists of rolling plains whilst the coastline is sandy, with large dunes in northern Jutland. The North Sea coast of England is mainly flat and sandy with many dunes and is similar to coastlines across the sea in the Netherlands. Large aeolian sand dunes are preserved in Permian sandstones near Brodick, showing the presence of an ancient desert. The remains of 350 men, women and children were buried in the dunes behind the beach and a small cairn and monument marks the site. The Netherlands has 20 national parks and hundreds of other nature reserves, that include lakes, heathland, woods, dunes and other habitats. Other seaweed may be used as fertilizer, compost for landscaping, or a means of combating beach erosion through burial in beach dunes. Some coastal areas have one or more sets of dunes running parallel to the shoreline directly inland from the beach. In most cases, the dunes are important in protecting the land against potential ravages by storm waves from the sea. These dunes form under winds that blow consistently from one direction, and they also are known as barchans, or transverse dunes. Straight or slightly sinuous sand ridges typically much longer than they are wide are known as linear dunes. The long axes of these dunes extend in the resultant direction of sand movement. Radially symmetrical, star dunes are pyramidal sand mounds with slipfaces on three or more arms that radiate from the high center of the mound. In the southeast Badain Jaran Desert of China, the star dunes are up to 500 metres tall and may be the tallest dunes on Earth. These dunes often occur in semiarid areas where the precipitation is retained in the lower parts of the dune and underlying soils. In inland deserts, parabolic dunes commonly originate and extend downwind from blowouts in sand sheets only partly anchored by vegetation. Simple parabolic dunes have only one set of arms that trail upwind, behind the leading nose. Show More Sentences Compound parabolic dunes are coalesced features with several sets of trailing arms. Complex parabolic dunes include subsidiary superposed or coalesced forms, usually of barchanoid or linear shapes. Parabolic dunes, like crescent dunes, occur in areas where very strong winds are mostly unidirectional. Parabolic dunes have loose sand and steep slopes only on their outer flanks. The inner slopes are mostly well packed and anchored by vegetation, as are the corridors between individual dunes. Seif dunes are thought to develop from barchans if a change of the usual wind direction occurs. In the sheltered troughs between highly developed seif dunes barchans may be formed because the wind is unidirectional. Occurring wherever winds periodically reverse direction, reversing dunes are varieties of any of the above shapes. These dunes typically have major and minor slipfaces oriented in opposite directions. Simple dunes are basic forms with a minimum number of slipfaces that define the geometric type. The erosive power of water results in particular types of landforms, such as sand dunes, and estuaries. Limited intervention often includes the succession of haloseres, including salt marshes and sand dunes. Stabilising dunes can help protect beaches by catching windblown sand, increasing natural beach formation. It is native to the coastlines of Europe and North Africa where it grows in the sands of beach dunes. It is adapted to habitat made up of shifting, accreting sand layers, as well as that composed of stabilised dunes. The plant's spread has changed the topography of some California beach ecosystems, especially in sand dunes. Coastal line side, usually occurs on sand dunes, sometimes often in inland site with low fertility. It is known for its scenic cliffs such as Cape Blanc Nez and Cape Gris Nez and for its wide area of dunes. In Australia, shifting sand dunes covered half the continent, whilst the Chaco and Pampas in South America became similarly dry. Besides the tidal channel there are interfaces to the upland dunes including mudflats, sand beaches and shingle flats. Show More Sentences Sand dunes can orient themselves perpendicular to the prevailing wind regime within coastal and desert locations. The first consists mainly of sand dunes and clayey alluvial soils in the polders. Calais is built on low ground with low sand dunes on either side and is enclosed by fortifications. While they waited for their vehicles to arrive, the men of the 3rd RTR were ordered to disperse in the sand dunes and were bombed soon after. The cowslip is frequently found on more open ground than the primrose, including open fields, meadows, coastal dunes and clifftops. Exposed bedrock surfaces, coarse sediments and local sand dunes attest to the strong bottom current conditions at the present time. Downstream from this point the river has shaped a large bed in the sand dunes creating a significant bottleneck at the confluence. It is also close to the original abbey ruins, is near a fresh water pool and overlooks the sand dunes and beach at Carn Near. The preferred habitat is dry ground, including scrub and gardens, and within the Isles of Scilly can be found on shingle beaches and sand dunes. A landing site near Chatelaillon was selected despite the fears of Mordaunt that large French forces might be lurking behind the sand dunes. It contains important habitats, including saltmarsh, reedbeds, mud flats and sand dunes. Thrushes and pipits move through the site and breeding birds such as lapwing and skylark patrol their territories in the dunes. Exposure to southwesterly winds contributes to Cape Verde's seasonal verdant appearance, in contrast to the undulating yellow dunes to the north. Its sand dunes, created by the strong onshore winds, are the highest in the world. Near the coast there are areas where the dunes are vegetated with hammocks. Overlapping dunes form oolitic ridges, which become rapidly lithified through the action of rainwater. Most of the long coastline is narrow and sandy with unstable dunes, small shifting lagoons and points. An artificial mound was found near the dunes which they partially uncovered and found to be a Native grave. The Sandhills are remnants of coastal dunes from a time when the land was sunken or the oceans were higher. Notable areas include De Slufter, where the tide comes in and meets the dunes, forming a marshy environment rich in both fauna and flora. Show More Sentences Strong tidal currents occur in the narrow channels between islands and reefs, and large submarine sand dunes migrate across the seafloor. On their way, those wild, undisturbed rivers are lined with dense rainforests, sand dunes or mangroves. Areas of sand dunes exist on coasts surrounding Barrow, particularly at Roanhead and North Walney. To the east, the plain is bounded by the foothills of the Pennines, while the western edge of the plain is separated from the sea by sand dunes. At that time, the area, known as South Hawes, was sparsely populated and dominated by sand dunes. Extensive sand dunes stretch for several miles between Birkdale and Woodvale to the south of the town. The Ainsdale sand dunes have been designated as a national nature reserve and a Ramsar site. Coastal dunes expand laterally as a result of lateral growth of coastal plants via seed or rhizome. Additionally the height of coastal dunes is impacted by storm events, which can erode dunes. The grasses add nitrogen to the soil, meaning other, less hardy plants can then colonize the dunes. Young dunes are called yellow dunes and dunes which have high humus content are called grey dunes. Leaching occurs on the dunes, washing humus into the slacks, and the slacks may be much more developed than the exposed tops of the dunes. These dunes most often form as a continuous 'train' of dunes, showing remarkable similarity in wavelength and height. Sand dunes can have a negative impact on humans when they encroach on human habitats. Sand dunes move via a few different means, all of them helped along by wind. One way that dunes can move is by saltation, where sand particles skip along the ground like a bouncing ball. The gypsum sand dunes of the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico are famous for their bright, white color. Desert sand dunes and loess are examples of aeolian transport and deposition. Pinnipeds may move further inland and rest in sand dunes or vegetation, and may even climb cliffs. Some evidence of neolithic inhabitants has been found in the island's sand dunes, though its name is likely of Norse origin. Show More Sentences North of Earnsie Point are secluded beaches, backed by dunes, which tend to be used by naturists. The oolites are commonly found in large current bedding structures that resemble sand dunes. The site is severely threatened by the rapid erosion of the overlying sand dunes. Sand dunes were much more widespread and active in many areas during the early Quaternary period. Compound dunes are large dunes on which smaller dunes of similar type and slipface orientation are superimposed, and complex dunes are combinations of two or more dune types. The sand mass of dunes can move either windward or leeward, depending on if the wind is making contact with the dune from below or above its apogee. Interactions between crescent-shaped, or barchan, dunes stabilize the sand mounds and explain how vast swarms of them can persist over time, two new studies find. Models of coastal dunes suggest that their final equilibrium height is related to the distance between the water line and where vegetation can grow. The landscape has been formed for a great part by storm tides in the 10th to 14th centuries, overflowing and carrying away former peat land behind the coastal dunes. Recent work has suggested that coastal dunes tend to evolve toward a high or low morphology depending on the growth rate of dunes relative to storm frequency. The stability of the dunes was once attributed to the vegetative cover but recent research has pointed to water as the main source of parabolic dune stability. Drenching sand dunes with oil stops their migration, but this approach is quite destructive to the dunes' animal habitats and uses a valuable resource. Planting dunes with vegetation also helps to stabilise them. The coastal plain consists mainly of sand dunes and polders. The site was farther from the sea than it is today, and it is possible that Skara Brae was built adjacent to a fresh water lagoon protected by dunes. With air suspension raised to boost ground clearance and plenty of urge to keep up momentum the Range Rover dusts across the dunes like a sand fly. Golf is a Scottish import to many countries but it is said to have been played in this region by St Cuthbert on the dunes of the Northumberland coast. Mycorrhizae and succession in plantings of beachgrass in sand dunes. Dome dunes are rare and occur at the far upwind margins of sand seas. And following that was a tortuous passage through a weird region of clay dunes, blue and violet and heliotrope and lavender, all worn smooth by rain and wind. Find more words! 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