Sentence examples for coarse dune from inspiring English sources

The continuously homogenous, coarse dune sand of the Namib is a combination of silica-oxide and mica/feldspar in a relation of 9 1 from eroded quartz (NATH 2000).

In the assumption that the soil substrate (the coarse dune sand) is fairly homogeneous within the whole transect, these results allow the suggestion that the pre-dawn plant water potentials are related to the position of the tree in relation to the volume of the dune ridge.

Cluster 1 is dominated by the alien plant C. edulis with E. farctus subsp. boreo-atlanticus's due to nitrophilous coarse sand dunes corresponding to Elytrigietum junceo-boreoatlanticae association (Costa et al. 2012).

If you face it square, it is possible to see nothing but water, a coarse beach and dunes towering 40 and 50 feet in the background.

The internal parts of both Glorieuses and Juan de Nova platforms are blanketed by sand dunes with medium to coarse sands with numerous reef pinnacles.

The dunes there are still topped with coarse but fragile grass, and osprey still build their nests there.

Dunes consist of cross-bedded medium to coarse sands with a coarsening-up trend.

Washovers, dune scarps and flattened beach profiles with concentrations of coarse-grained sediment or heavy minerals are the diagnostic geological signatures of large storms on barriers today.

Wind pushed the sand into dunes and rippling plains; ocean storms added more sand; and coarse grasses covered everything.

Despite the initial promise of linear dune records as a revolutionary source of palaeoenvironmental information in drylands, the outcomes to date have been coarse, although still valuable, in resolution.

Close to their up-dip pinch-out these coarse strata consist commonly of poorly sorted, ungraded very coarse sandstone/granule conglomerate overlain abruptly by planar-laminated or medium-scale (dune) cross-stratified, medium-grained sandstone.