Dunes develop when wind-blown sand organizes into patterns, most often in deserts and arid or semi-arid parts of the world. Every continent on Earth has dune fields, but dunes and dune-like sand ...

Depressions such as impact craters can act as traps for sediments that have been blown in from elsewhere, accumulating in various patterns whipped up by strong winds. The dune field in this unnamed 48 ...

The many ergs of the Sahara Desert are a beautiful lesson in the shifting history of sand in the desert, and the shapes and scales of dunes Top image: The Issaouane Erg in Algeria on January 16, 2005.

These dunes are a fleet of Star Fleet communicator badges (combadge), flying in formation across the Martian surface. The geomorphology of why this happens has nothing to do with Star Trek or ...

Incipient foredunes are the initial dunes which accumulate above the high spring tide mark and form due to the presence of some roughness element at the rear of the beach that rapidly reduces wind ...

Dust storms are a common occurrence in the deserts of northern China and previous researchers have attempted to locate the most important sources of dust. Dust is important from a variety of ...

Two types of wind-blown sedimentary deposits are pictured in this scene of the floor of Ius Chasma in the Valles Marineris. Smaller light toned ridge-like ripples draped over the bright bedrock are ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The force of wind blowing over the land can shape Earth's surface in profound ways, and now for ...

Something weird is at work on the cold, dark plains of Pluto, where hundreds of regularly spaced ridges look a bit like an alien thumbprint pressed into extraterrestrial ice. Today, though, ...