VirtualGlobetrotting: Dunes

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Rub Al Khali (southern fringe)
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Little Sahara State Park
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Sleeping Bear Dunes
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Maspalomas Sand Dunes
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Sand dunes in interesting shapes
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Algodones Sand Dunes
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Coos Bay Dunes
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
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Florence Dunes
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Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area

Sanddune in Namib Desert
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By: pvdmark.
Sanddune along dry riverbed in Naukluft Game Park, part of the Namib Desert. When zooming out in GM, you see pictures where the water flows. When zooming in, the hi-res pictures show a dry riverbed.

Jockey Ridge State Park
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Tractor fighting a losing battle against the Sahara's dunes
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Pilat dune
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By: dda.
Highest sand dune of Europe

Indiana Dunes
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Moving dunes
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Lençóis Maranhenses
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By: adrbr.
Composed of large, white, sweeping dunes, at first glance Lençóis Maranhenses looks like an archetypal desert. In fact it isn't actually a desert. Lying just outside the amazon basin, the region is subject to a regular rain season during the beginning of the year. The rains cause a peculiar phenomenon: freshwater collects in the valleys between sand dunes, spotting the desert with blue and green lagoons that reach their fullest between July and September.

Famous Saharan sand dunes
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Wind-blown sands over a lonely road
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By: losbeats.
Sand dunes moving in over a road that leads to some kind of facility in Algeria

Sand dunes encroaching the roads
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By: kjfitz.
This may have been shortly after Hurricane Katrina.
Note the WWII battery a few dozen yards north.

Sand Dunes
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Thurra River Sand Dunes
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Dunes
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Blue Sand
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Taklamkan Desert’s sand dunes

Fractal Dunes
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Corralejo Sand Dunes

Dolphin-shaped sand

Moreton Island Sand Dunes

Råbjerg Mile
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By: Dania.
Råbjerg Mile is a migrating coastal dune between Skagen and Frederikshavn, Denmark. It is the largest moving dune in Northern Europe with an area of around 1 km² (0.4 mi²) and a height of 40 m (130 ft). The dune contains a total of 4 million m3 of sand. The wind moves it in a north-easterly direction up to 18 m a year. The dune leaves a low, moist layer of sand behind it, trailing back westwards towards Skagerrak, where the Mile originally formed more than 300 years ago. Over 250,000 people visit the dune every year.
In northern Jutland in the 16th and 17th centuries shifting dunes were a problem for the population: huge dunes, some stretching up to 7 km (4 mi) inland drove them back from the coastal areas, but in the 19th century the government acted to alleviate the problem. The Sand Drift Act of 1857 allowed the state to buy or expropriate areas of sand drift, and a further Act in 1857 allowed the purchase of areas adjacent to the drifts. Dune grasses and conifers were planted to stabilize the sands and these plantations became common after 1880. Although barren, the dune zone allowed limited sheep farming and some inshore fishing. By the 1950s the dune drifts were under control.

Amazing sand dunes
tallturtle82 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: tallturtle82.
I nicked this from the Bing Maps "Explore Map Imagery" Those reds and oranges are amazing.

Henty Sand Dunes

Swakopmund Sand Dunes

Athabasca Sand Dunes

Oranjemund Sand Dunes

Fraser Island Sand Dunes

Sand Mountain
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
The sand originates from the ancient Lake Lahontan

Tottori Sand Dunes
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By: Mike1989.
The dunes were created by sediment deposits carried from the Chūgoku Mountains

Middle Sand Hills

Genipabu Sand Dunes

Samalyuca Sand Dunes

Bilbao Sand Dunes

Spirit Sand Hills

Great Sand Hills

Jijoca de Jericoacoara Sand Dunes

Yeagerup Sand Dunes

Orange Dunes
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By: KRL.
The natural light and color of the sand make this bleak area visually appealing.

Shark Mound - Bimini
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By: tallturtle82.
The shark shaped mound was discovered in 1989 during a flight over East Bimini. The Shark Mound is about 500 feet long and 10 feet high.

Seven Coloured Earths
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By: tallturtle82.
The Seven Coloured Earths are sand dunes containing sand of seven distinct colors (red, brown, violet, green, blue, purple and yellow).

Dunes of Freshwater West

Dunes of Baní
The Dunes of Bani are the largest dunes in the Carribean.

Singing Dune (Akkum-Kalkan)
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By: Mike_bjm.
The Singing Dune is a very large almost mountain like sand dune which is 150m high and 3km long. The dune is 182km northeast from the city of Almaty in the Altyn-Emel National Park, Kazakhstan.
It the metrological conditions are right the dune emits a low rumbling sound and it is the phenomenon which gave rise to the it popular name.
The singing starts when something causes the sand to slip down the slopes of the dune. The sound has variously been described as like an organ or the scream or howl of an aircraft engine. It can be as some distance away and can last several minutes.

Al Wathba Fossil Dunes
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By: kkeps.
Millions of years ago, when this area was covered by water, eroded sediments settled at the bottom of these water bodies. Over time, the fine-grained sand was covered by other layers of sediment. The layers became compacted and cemented together by different minerals into stable structures.
The formations got their shape from the interplay of wind strength and sediment supply. Despite consistent prevailing wind directions, dune patterns and alignments vary considerably from area to area. This allows geologists to better understand the history of the land-forms and rock formations.

Dunes of Baní beachside
The Dunes are located on a scenic peninsula with the Caribbean on one side and the Bahia de Las Calderas on the other side.