dune

Up on a dune, he saw a girl, all by herself, sitting on a camp stool before an easel and absorbed in her painting.

Aleut seamstresses created finely stitched waterproof parkas from seal gut, and some women still master the skill of weaving fine baskets from dune wildrye grass or Elymus mollis.

The southern part of the Red Sea coast, along with the Red Sea coast of Djibouti, has been described as the Eritrean coastal desert, a harsh sand and gravel coastal strip covered in dune grasses and shrubs that is important as a channel for the mass migration of birds of prey.

The main body consists of a modified dune buggy.

It was popularly known as the moon buggy, a play on the phrase " dune buggy ".

The coastal plains are dune fields, gravel plains covered with lichen and some scattered salt pans.

* Heavy mineral sands ore deposits and other sand dune hosted deposits

Large dune fields on the north shore can be found on barrier islands at the entrances to various bays and harbours.

The shifting, parabolic dune system is home to a variety of birds and rare plants ; it is also a site of significant archeological interest.

The sparse population of the desert states made it wholly unlikely that many of these stamps would ever be used for mailing purposes, and earned them the name of the " sand dune " countries.

The isthmus was reinforced by hand with sand and Quaternary deposits to what is now an sand dune.

The largest and most famous dune, Nappanerica, or more popularly Big Red ( named by Simpson Desert traveller Dennis Bartell ), is 40 metres in height.

They range size from 0. 05mm to 1. 2mm with 0. 5mm being the average size for the crests and 0. 3 being the average size on the dune flanks.

* Parajet Skycar a British parafoil dune buggy

However, as the animals were preserved in ancient sand dune deposits, it is now thought that the animals were buried in sand, either from a collapsing dune or in a sandstorm.

Ripple patterns in a sand dune created by wind or water is an example of an emergent structure in nature.

The 984 hectares Padthaway Conservation Park that is situated on a former coastal dune is close to Padthaway.

Much of the western coastline of the islands is machair, a fertile low-lying dune pastureland.

Where wind is the force distributing the grains inland, the deposit behind the beach becomes a dune.

The lower energy waves deposit sediment on the beach berm and dune, adding to the beach profile.

Higher energy waves erode sediment from the beach berm and dune, and deposit it off shore, forming longshore bars.

The removal of sediment from the beach berm and dune decreases the beach profile.

The line between beach and dune is difficult to define in the field.

Many people travel to Donegal for the superb golf links — long sandy beaches and extensive dune systems are a feature of the county, and many links courses have been developed.