There are dune buggies and motor bikes for careering over the dunes, a mock Mongolian yurt, and camels and Mongolian horses. |
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We have also seen many men who are out on their dune buggies, going up and down through the highways trying to see if they spot anything there. |
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Instead, it was swarming with motorcycles and dune buggies, punching it over ridges, plunging full-bore down the backside of the dunes. |
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In plan-form the dune has an irregular outline but the eastern margin is more complex and irregular than the western edge. |
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This species lives exclusively in or near sandy soils within coastal dune and scrub communities and maritime chaparral. |
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The westerly dipping reflections show that the dune has migrated from east to west and is accreting on its western side. |
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After weaving between a few trees, the vehicle climbs a subtle dune and stops. |
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The term also acknowledges the predominant aeolian dune component of the coastal barriers. |
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Where cored the Auk Formation is easily identified because of the preservation of aeolian dune facies. |
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The katipo spider is a coastal sand dune specialist, and is mostly found on the dunes of warm sandy beaches. |
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He was greeted by dune buggies, which then took him across a lunar landscape for five hours to a collection of yurts, or Mongolian tents. |
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Without such an effort, attempting to improve the situation is like building a house on a sand dune. |
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Sandboarders compare the feeling of flying down a dune to anything from surfing to snowboarding, depending on which discipline they come from. |
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This hard earth of ours doesn't care if it's a sea or a desert, a river or a dune. |
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At each sample site, the least diagenetically modified, coarser grained sediments from laminae of dune couplets were selected for analysis. |
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Elsewhere, dune sounds have been likened to drums, foghorns and trumpets, among other things. |
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The relative chronology derived from the radar stratigraphy clearly shows that the dune has migrated from east to west. |
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Rising menacingly over the top of a nearby dune was nothing more than a partially furled beach umbrella in its stand. |
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Not knowing how to negotiate the lip of the dune, I took a toss and landed in the soft sand. |
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They will stop on the highest sand dune to view the sunset, and continue the journey to the Bedouin campsite in the heart of the desert. |
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The figure for shoreweed and water lobelia is based on a sample of 93 fens and dune pools. |
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He wisely perches his sleeping bag on top of a dune to avoid their onslaught. |
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The asymmetrical triangles of water and dune give shape to the engulfing sand and sky. |
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In the US it is staggering how many people ride around in dune buggies, which is fun but is a significant cause of dust storms and pollution. |
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You hike through that tunnel of live oak, cool shade and wren song, then climb the stairs that top out on a high dune strewn with pennywort. |
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I lay slouched back in my ripped leather chair, legs crossed on the table, eyes shut, and my dune hat slipped slightly below the brow. |
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Astronauts would roam the surface in hi-tech dune buggies to search for answers to scientific riddles that continue to baffle researchers. |
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With erosion on the windward slope and deposition in the lee, the dune body moves in a downwind direction. |
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In more stable parts of the dune the native Australian Pigface, Carpobrotus glaucescens is able to take hold. |
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We had both gotten up early and drove to Jockey's Ridge state park, the largest sand dune on the East Coast. |
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A herd of camels strolls past as we pull up at a sand dune for the second night of desert camping. |
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The helicopter was returning from a successful rescue mission off Helvick Head when it hit a sand dune in thick fog. |
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When he attempted to build a dune buggy from an old car, he taught Alan to wield an arc welder to help him do the job. |
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One of the best levels in the game has a timid scientist driving a dune buggy while you man the rear-mounted machine gun. |
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Now that we have some visuals of what a dune, yardang, a loess are we can go into the actual definitions. |
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The Kelso sand dune habitat is composed of a continuum of inclines, that vary from flat to steep. |
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These anaglyphs of Nirgal Valles and Maja Valles make it perfectly clear we're seeing deep flat-bottomed canyons with dune systems of some sort. |
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If adventure sports is one's forte, the city offers everything from dune bashing, desert camping and deep water diving to dolphin watching. |
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The soldier pulls Robert from the scene and puts him in the dune buggy. |
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Today, however, the likelihood of being bitten by katipo is becoming increasingly remote, as this icon of our coastal dune systems is rapidly disappearing. |
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In the more stabilized dune sections, the tawny sands flare with color, thanks to the blossoms of desert gold, pink desert sand verbena, and purple phacelia. |
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Several native species have begun to colonize the now stabilized dune area including Sitka spruce, evergreen huckleberry, pearly everlasting, yarrow, and kinnikinnic. |
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Sitting there is a dune buggy and several different weapons. |
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How pray tell have we humans managed to put a plethora of dune buggies on Mars but are apparently unable to come up with an effective stratagem for killing roaches? |
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We lugged the beach stuff onto the beach, avoiding anything that resembled a dune. |
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Suddenly, in the lee of a large dune, she spotted the glow of a campfire. |
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Sand grains are blown up the windward side of the heap and over the crest until the leeward side of the dune is so steep that it slumps under its own weight. |
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Here, specimens of the shallow subtidal-intertidal cockle Katelysia rhytiphora have moved up profile from lagoonal facies into advancing aeolian dune sediments. |
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Because the fish will be waiting in ambush behind the top of the sand dune watching for baitfish or whatever to be washed into their field of view. |
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It seems he has reserved this dune buggy strictly for visiting those planets where a bunch of aliens, themselves in dune buggies, are likely to come roaring over the hills. |
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We have cars, trucks, dune buggies, motorcycles, rigs and tanks. |
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Hares are resident herbivores, grazing in both dune and marsh areas. |
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This is Menie Links, a 4,000-year-old unspoiled coastal dune system on the north-east coast of Scotland which Molly Forbes has christened paradise. |
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As the wind progresses up the windward slope of the dune form, streamlines are compressed by the dune body, causing an acceleration of flow towards the crest. |
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The fossil trackway undoubtedly was produced by a terrestrial hermit crab, like those that are common in beach and dune environments in the Bahamas today. |
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The rocks are massive, strongly jointed and crop out as conical hills or elliptical ridges that rise to 5-20 m above the surrounding dune fields or sabkha. |
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Suddenly a bunch of dune buggies and jeeps come out of nowhere. |
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While stabilized and vegetated, the dune fields are often degraded, since in some cases it has been many thousands of years since they were last active. |
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The dune buggy, designed and sprayed to resemble a racing car, is capable of doing speeds of 100 miles per hour, although it will be used for display. |
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Sediment cores obtained throughout the region show that dune fields have been active over broad areas for several periods in the past 3,000 years. |
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Not surprisingly, the relationships were the opposite with elevation, as higher dune elevations result in greater distances between the soil surface and the water table. |
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The dune vegetation included sea oats, sea grape, and beach morning glory. |
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A crescentic dune with a star dune superimposed on its crest is the most common complex dune. |
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The leaflet asks the dune enjoyers not to pull wild plants by root, at any circumstances, rather they should help them proliferate further. |
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Sauermann G, Andrade JS Jr, Maia LP, Costa UMS, Araujo AD, Herrmann HJ Wind velocity and sand transport on a barchan dune. |
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A priority habitat in Wexford is the grey dune, on which many native wild flora grow, including bee orchid and pyramidal orchid. |
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Ballyteigue Burrow, located near Duncormick, is one of the finest protected sand dune systems in Ireland. |
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Phil Smith noted good numbers of northern dune tiger beetle at Ainsdale's Green Beach, with its unseasonal female snow bunting. |
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Councils are building up engineered protection such as levees and stopbanks or putting money into 'beach nourishment' or dune planting. |
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Clonal growth of Lithospermum caroliniense in contrasting sand dune habitats. |
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Although a pumpjack well prominently occupies the crest of the dune behind the quarry, the site appears to be intact and undisturbed. |
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The microstructure is relatively consistent within this phase of each dune, being dominantly pellicular grain and bridged grain. |
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Plant lovers may find alpine pennycress, Smith's pepperwort, whorled water millfoil, and the rare dune helleborine. |
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El Nino-related sea level increases and sea storms can lead to dune overwash and enhanced inundation of the tidal marsh surface. |
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Three extinct species appear to be closely related to the Manx shearwater, the lava shearwater, the dune shearwater and Scarlett's shearwater. |
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Some types of crescentic dunes move more quickly over desert surfaces than any other type of dune. |
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These dunes often occur in semiarid areas where the precipitation is retained in the lower parts of the dune and underlying soils. |
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However to cross straight over the dune by going over the trailing arms, can be very difficult. |
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A type of extensive parabolic dune that lacks discernible slipfaces and has mostly coarse grained sand is known as a zibar. |
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If the prevailing wind then becomes dominant for a lengthy period of time the dune will revert to its barchan form, with one exaggerated wing. |
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The wing will continue to grow under both wind conditions, thus producing a seif dune. |
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Some parts of the coastline consist of machair, a low lying dune pasture land. |
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The conditions on an embryo dune are harsh, with salt spray from the sea carried on strong winds. |
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The dune is well drained and often dry, and composed of calcium carbonate from seashells. |
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Rotting seaweed, brought in by storm waves adds nutrients to allow pioneer species to colonize the dune. |
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Also, the deep roots bind the sand together, and the dune grows into a foredune as more sand is blown over the grasses. |
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Coniferous forests and heathland are common climax communities for sand dune systems. |
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Wind results in the transportation of fine sediment and the formation of sand dune fields and soils from airborne dust. |
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This region was a large, active dune field during the Pleistocene epoch, but today is largely stabilized by grass cover. |
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Projects attempted to replicate the protective characteristics of natural beach and dune systems. |
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The presence of this grass was a major cause of the destruction of native dune habitat in Oregon and Washington during the 20th century. |
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The PEM modules are placed in a row from the dune to the mean low waterline. |
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While refuelling he knocked the jacks and the car drove off by itself, before beaching on a dune. |
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Remnants of this eroded calcarenite dune are still visible in the surrounding coastal landscape. |
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Immediately above the bar is a small area of dune grassland merging into maritime grassland around the coastal fringe. |
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At the top of the beach is a small remnant sand dune system with the grassy area behind used for boat standing and repairs. |
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A clearing among the dune scrub marks the site on the Fish River Sun Resort property. |
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Homopterans and thrips were collected in the field by sweep-netting dune grass on the day of the experiment or the day before. |
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Much of the Scottish coastline consists of a machair formation, a dune pasture land formed as sea levels subsided. |
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But the specimens Pauline is describing on this occasion are dune helleborines, an exceptionally rare type of orchid with a name that's wonderful to roll around the tongue. |
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While frontal dune erosion inevitably leads to loss of habitat area it may also bring benefits in the form of geomorphological and ecological dynamism. |
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Gilgaied cracking clay soils and gradational calcareous soils are by far the most widespread soils, occupying the plains and the gentler dune slopes. |
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Perhaps the most distinctive is the barchan dune, an isolated crescentic form with arms that stretch downwind. Barchans are not huge, often with heights of only a few meters. |
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There's a fascinating combination of rocky shoreline, sand, dune and tide pools to explore and the beautiful bay is also an unbeatable location to have a go at sea kayaking. |
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Over the years, the sand covered them up, creating a huge sand dune. |
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His sandboard cuts into the dune, sending sand rushing down the slope. |
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It is usually in the slacks that more rare species are developed and there is a tendency for the dune slacks soil to be waterlogged and where only marsh plants can survive. |
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A nabkha, or coppice dune, is a small dune anchored by vegetation. |
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They may be composed of clay, silt, sand, or gypsum, eroded from the basin floor or shore, transported up the concave side of the dune, and deposited on the convex side. |
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The dune landscape on Texel is a unique habitat for wildlife. |
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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. |
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This means they were able to hunt large animals, such as eland, but also gathered, collected or trapped small animals such as tortoises, hyraxes and dune mole rats. |
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Tsoar, H. Dynamic processes acting on a longitudinal sand dune. |
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These techniques include beach nourishment and sand dune stabilisation. |
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Shoreline indicators may be morphological features such as the berm crest, scarp edge, vegetation line, dune toe, dune crest and cliff or the bluff crest and toe. |
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On a seif dune the slipface develops on the side facing away from the strong wind, while the slipface of a barchan faces the direction of movement. |
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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. |
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Each setting begins with a small dune rear-ending a big one. |
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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. |
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North of the estuary mouth extend the Sands of Forvie, the most extensive sand dune formation in Europe, which has been shown to have been a Stone Age settlement. |
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Some rare plants should also benefit including the prickly saltwort, early sand-grass, smooth cat''''s-ear, blue fleabane, sticky stork''''s-bill and dune fescue. |
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He hurried along, hoping to get in position by sunrise, and climbed a high dune that made him think of a grandstand he had seen once in a videobook brought from offworld. |
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In fact, the xerces blue survived that first wave of habita destruction, only to succumb in the 1940s to continuing development especially of sand dune habitats. |
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