Sentence examples for particle dunes from inspiring English sources

Mixing with other, similar, detritus, these particle dunes can drift for millions or even billions of years.

For example, these jets produce strong "winds" that appear to drive dust particles into dunes.

Also, variable discharge of the Yellow River with local diversions for irrigation and throughout the catchment resulted in possibly an increased supply of aeolian particles for dune field expansion in the past 2 ka.

With the exception of subangular particles hosted by linear dunes, sediment rounding, and other signs of abrasion serve to differentiate aeolian from lacustrine deposits.

The particle size analysis of natural dune sand is shown in Fig. 1.

The trick we think is that there are very strong winds there - 300m/s - and that these winds can, even though the density of the gas is very low, push particles around to make the dunes".

And off to the side a stylized, sloping construction made of particle board evoked the desert sand dunes that surround the palace.

Alongshore trends were also identified in the mean particle size and sorting of the frontal dunes, although there is no direct correspondence with the observed geochemical differences.