Exempel på dune

• It was a low shore on which the fine sand, some fifteen feet deep, lay drifted into hillocks or dunes. 

• The dunes extend for miles: an empty wilderness of sand with the grey North Sea beyond. 

• The loose sand, in which these shells are packed, is heaped into low, straight, long lines of dunes, like those left by the sea at the head of many bays. 

• This time the tide was in, so he crossed the dunes and struck the shore on the further side of the quicksand. 

• We were thrown out upon the dunes. 

• Sand grains' ping-pong-like movement becomes obvious and dune formation simplicity itself.

• A large area of the district consists of sand dunes and barren land.

• It is postulated that these two modes correspond to the formation of ripples and dunes respectively.

• Parking is provided on the ground floor, part submerged by dunes and marram grasses.

• The performance took place along a cliff top which dropped to a lagoon protected from the ocean by a thick sand dune.

• The peninsula contains different types of tropical vegetation such as tropical deciduous forest, thorn scrub, mangroves, grassland, marshlands and dunes.

• The perturbations are migrating downstream indicating the formation of dunes.

• However, the same winds could help to disperse microbes within gypsum sand grains which accumulate in dune structures.

• Deposits occur red above fair-weather wave base in a shoreface environment, built up by amalgamated event beds and dunes.

• Data from 19 tree species were collected from 20 transects in coastal dune forest.

• The predominant habitats are marshes, mediterranean scrublands and sand dunes.

• The starting point of each transect was typically the crest/valley of the second longitudinal dune from the shoreline (50 m from the forest edge).

• Using physically plausible estimates for these parameters the results of the analysis are in good agreement with observations for both ripples and dunes.