Sentence examples for moving sands from inspiring English sources

The monotonous, sandy plain was originally covered with lakes and ponds and was bordered by dunes of moving sands.

Ammopiptanthus is the only genus of evergreen broadleaf shrub in the northwest desert of China and both species are dominant in the local vegetation, so this genus plays an important role in fixing moving sands and delaying further desertification.

Due to the important role that A. mongolicus plays in fixing moving sands and delaying further desertification, the protection and research on A. mongolicus are becoming particularly important and necessary [ 4].

An evening trip to the "moving sands" dunes was stunningly beautiful, and eating with his family in an oasis at the bottom of a mountain we had just scrambled up hugely exciting as it involved spaghetti, rather than the Iranian staple of kebab!

It is not made of moving sand but of volcanic rock: mountainous, lifeless, almost lunar.

Actively developing and moving sand ridges occupy the Canning Basin, the Great Victoria Desert, the Amadeus depression, and large areas of the Arunta-Sturt Complex.

A series of long shingle bars (Nehrungen), capped by moving sand dunes, has been built up there, cutting off the distinctive shallow lagoons (Haffs) from the open sea.

"It's hard to measure group fun but no matter how old we are, when you start moving sand around, something magical happens," Mr. Perchik said.

A Scotsman named James MacKay traveled here in 1795 and described it concisely as "a great desert of moving sand, where there is neither soil, timber, or rock".

While calling for the renourishment of beaches that lost significant quantities of sand during the storm, the report warned against moving sand from other areas that support species of birds and fish.

To the west the Talak region includes the Tamesna area in the north (where fossil valleys are filled with moving sand dunes) and the Azaoua area in the south.