dune

The hovercraft travelled first over the water, then mounted the beach, climbed up the dune and sat down on a road.

Last October we sailed into a remote part of Mozambique only to discover a huge sand dune that had never been paraglided before.

Soon you find yourself on an exciting roller coaster ride, known as "dune bashing, " going up and down the dunes.

The little snail thought that had he had the long legs as the rabbit, he would be able to jump to the top of the other dune easily.

He suffered dryness and tiredness. He felt as if his dry skin would split. Finally at dawn next day, he reached the top of the first dune.

Out in Tatooine's Dune Sea, lying at the base of the Great Pit of Carkoon, rests a gruesome creature known as the Sarlacc.

Like a sand dune, the pavilion appears smooth on the side that bears the full force of the wind and rough and textured on the other side.

There was traffic roaring in the background. He was sitting, he said, on a dune overlooking the Pacific Coast Highway.

Standing on the beach, I stared at my shadow, noticed that the ghost crab had appeared across the sand, at dune's edge. He was watching me.

The particle-size classification of moving dune and semi-fixed dune was better, which showed a strong positive bias and a sharp peak.

The last voyage of Jabba's sail barge was a trip into the Dune Sea, for the ill-fated execution of Luke Skywalker and his friends.

Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale , into a sand dune .

It took us about 10 minutes to climb up to the top of that dune.

Although a kraft dragon does not appear in A New Hope, its bleach-white skeleton does appear during Threepio's trek across the Dune Sea.

During an expedition on dromedary's back they noticed on top of a small sand dune an object glittering under the sun .

They were inspired by architectural flourishes on Britain's pavilion of fiber-optic strands and a United Arab Emirates sand dune in steel.

When the dune dries in a day or so, the wind will begin to reshape it once again.

The layer surface was of a wavy structure, probably due to the place being a sand dune during ancient times.

In one instance, scientists found that hundreds of cubic yards of sand had avalanched down the face of a dune.

Sometimes they were caused by faraway thunder, sometimes by a thousand tons of sand sloughing down the slip-face of a high dune.

He suddenly got an idea. He indented all his body into the shell, covered the gate with leaf, and soon rolled down the dune.

In the southeast, just beyond the edge of the dune field, the land appears as a patchwork of brown and green.

Its founder says the company will offer person-to-person rentals of power boats, dune buggies, jet skis and snowmobiles too.

Everyone knew that the dune threshers attacked from under the sand, and that we were safe upon the rocks!

But the family house survived untouched, he said. "We built on a dune, well back from the beach. "

True to his enigmatic character, facts about Boba Fett remain as shifty as the sands of the Dune Sea.

The crazy dune buggy ride. . . scary stuff flying up and down the dunes in these yokes.

Perched on the edge of a cold, windswept dune in North Carolina, I was about to fulfill a dream I shared with Leonardo da Vinci: To fly.

I was about to take a picture of the penguins when suddenly from the other side of the dune appeared a young elephant seal.

Cues have been abstracted from sand-dune morphology and generation into the formal expression of the villa.

Eventually one badly wounded Iraqi fighter in blood soaked uniform crawls back over the dune and in his dying tone tells his commander.

Or it could be that the underlying dune is brighter in this spot than the dust on top of it.

NASA's prototype tiny bot looks like a very flashy six-wheeled, radio-controlled dune buggy for kids.

That the result of closing the moving dune after 10 years was still without vegetation on slope but the dune went forward.

The long, skinny dune field pushing into the lake is a persistent feature.

One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing.

Most of the city's population distribution along both sides of the alluvial Fujiang Pingba, along the river's valley and dune dam Xiaoping.

Not until we walk through the desolate dune with my hand circled by your fingers can we keep our flame kindled and never let it die.

Negative impacts include effects on water and air environment, plant and animal, soil and dune erosion, and aesthetics.

The information may be useful for a proposed dune restoration project.

Wind-sculpted dunes sprawl across the Sesriem and Sossusvlei dune area in Namibia's Namib Desert.

Doda never went with the execution party into the Dune Sea and was spared a fiery death.

These northeasterly winds are likely responsible for the regular dune arms that point into the valley from both sides.

As a five-year old, Anakin climbed a dune to chase away banthas so that hunters would not shoot them.

Located at the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert, the White Sands National Monument is the largest gypsum dune field in the world.

Glow from the distant Shaybah oil field turns the Saudi Arabian sky purple as a man dances atop a nearby sand dune.

The coping and windward slop of sand dune have the greatest diurnal temperature range, but the leeward slop is contrary.

Between the shore and the inland edge of the dune field, sand alternates with vegetated ground.

It was there one day in his youth that Henshilwood discovered a cave half obscured by a sand dune.

Bordered by multiple mountain ranges, the Valley of Lakes hosts remnant basins of larger ancient lakes, dune fields, and salt marshes.

The beaches, sandy are covered only with tufts of halophilous grasses. The dune areas have highly coconut trees and stunted palm trees.

The space-time variety Characteristics of soil moisture content are studied on mobile dune in Liaoning Northwest Sandy land.

Herrmann says he became interested in the problem after watching lightning in swirling sands over dune fields at night.

Did you know he wears Dior Dune for men.

Surrounded by many mountain ranges, the Valley of Lakes holds basins of larger ancient lakes, dune fields, and salt marshes.

After one more hours, at 3 clock and half, we arrived the end of this road - Sand Dune Arch Trailhead park place!

The gentle sweep of the dune bisects the frame and the energy of the plant is reinforced by its stalks thrusting skyward.

Wind and rain lash the face of Red Canyon, an ancient dune complex on the island's eastern flank.

They often form along the boundary between the dune and thesurface below.

Then they gather in clusters of six or seven, each group taking shelter behind a small dune and kindling a meager fire.

It adds roughness to the dune's surface, to the texture of the dune's surface, binding the grains.

A dune buggy is a recreational vehicle with large wheels, and wide tires, designed for use on sand dunes or beaches.

Frequently , sands of active dune in northwest desert areas have weak influence on North China and East China.

He found 66, and they were moving back to us, but got the grid wrong, and came over a dune.

'and if business is to be dune, I had better do it. '

With my son, it was a first dune-buggy ride.

A rider climbs a riffed sand dune during the seventh stage of the Dakar Rally between Iquique and Antofagasta, Chile, Friday, Jan.

Some of the problems are in fact common to loess plateaus and dune deserts.

After I climbed on to the sand dune in the light rain and gusty wind, the rain stopped and sun peeked out.

It possessed every outcropping of rock, every curve of sand dune on a barren and gelid shore.

In the upper reach the bed was dune covered and in the lower reach it was flat.

Jawas have long been scavengers, as the Dune Sea provides a bounty of refuse.

South part is mainly lake beach bar system, including lake shore dune ridge and lake shore carcass.

a dune grass of the Pacific seacoast used as a sand binder.

In addition to human reason, natural causes of desertification and played a role in promoting -- abnormal climate, wind in dune movement.

Longago driven away from settled locales to the deep desert wastes of theBorderlands, the dune thresher is rarely seen by city dwellers.

Soil seed bank density in fixed dune was greatest, the least in moving dunes. 3.

A paraglider rides the winds above the Cerro Dragon sand dune in Chile's Atacama Desert.

The enraged Iraqi commander rallies 1000 fighters and sends them to the other side of the dune to repel the foe.

and aeolian sand movement occurs at dune tops and upper part of dune slopes only.

Climb a mountain. Ride in a dune buggy. Walk barefoot in the grass.

second place went to a dune buggy retrofitted by engineers at el bit systems , an israeli military contractor.

A glider wing is an efficient way to generate lift, but my seconds-long flight proved that running off a dune doesn't generate much speed.

They had to move this village in 1987 as a huge dune threatened to swallow it.

The little dune is formed with loose dry sand by wind.

Tourists career down a mountainous sand dune in the aptly named Valley of the Moon region of Chile's Atacama Desert.

There is a sand dune in our village, and everyone seemed to be going there.

The nearest sand dune is less than 100 miles from Beijing.

Originally released Aug. 1, 2007, this image is of Mars' Russell Crater dune field, which is covered seasonally by carbon dioxide frost.

Grows more than 100 ten thousand on the rolling sand dune to occupy a land area of more than 2400 hectare natural mountain apricot trees.

We received some documentation on dune fixation.

The main plant transit from moving dune to semi-immobile dune are Artemisia halodendron, Salix gordejevii, Polygonum divaricatum.

The dune reflected the sedimentary records of repeated dust-storms accumulation since from 2500 years ago.

The sand dune is the highest point in a flat landscape, so it offers spectacular views.

A dune field covers some of the ground.

"The first thing patrons will see when they enter will be a large sand dune, " he explains.

But, by now, you're probably asking how am I planning to solidify a sand dune?

Enjoying a "dune dinner" outside of Dubai will prove you wrong.

It means a sand dune with a trumpet.

Ah, the sand dune with a trumpet?

The similarity of soil seed banks in fixed dune, semi-fixed dunes and moving dunes were bigger. 4.

But just behind the trees an almost vertical dune was advancing to rebury them.

Now it is a tourist playground. Led by train staff, we climb a massive dune.

Happiness is the establishment on the sand dune castle, on one second brilliance! Next second destruction!

I see fog suspended at dune peaks, button beetles, and birds.

Captured during the region's dry season, the picture shows a mixture of brown and green in the dune-free areas.

Yarna had to traverse the Dune Sea to get to Mos Eisley, to free her children before Jabba's assets were sold to the highest bidder.

Is EA planning to make any game about dune?

Dune, people in hunger, where to go. . .

From Dune 45 I proceed to Big Daddy, the highest dune in the world, and then it's on to the salt and clay pan of Sossusvlei.

My LED headlamp lit the white sand dune.

"I met some nice people, " said a Dune fan.

On the second day, we went over the 'famouse'sand dune.

Sandra Vernon, a 47-year-old mother of three in my class on the dune, egged me on.

The flowers strive in the dune .

Dawn is ideal dune-viewing time: stay inside the park boundaries for those early starts.

Dune A hill or ridge of wind-blown sand.

More snapshots are gathered the following day, when I start early at Dune 45, the most photographed in the world.

Climbing a sand dune on the way home.

This is where we stop for breakfast and the dune sprinter appears.

The Turbulent Characteristics in the Surface Layer over Dune at Naiman in Inner Mongolia

Airflow and Particle-Size Distributions and Their Significance on the Dynamic Process of a Simple Transverse Dune

Energy budget in the surface layer over movable dune at Naiman in Inner Mongolia

Seeing the dune peaks, button beetles, and birds of Namibia are enough to make anyone want to keep this, Earth's oldest desert, alive

Characteristics and simulation analysis of evapotranspiration of shrub sand dune at the oasis-desert transitional zones

Vegetation characteristics and there effect on sand dune stabilization of different succession stages in Horqin sandy land

Evolution characteristics of the artificially re-vegetated shrub ecosystem of arid and semi-arid sand dune area

Strategies of seed germination on sand dune and seedling desiccation tolerance, of Psammochloa villosa (Poaceae)

Study on Land Preparation in Different Period to Improve Survival Rate of Forestation in Arid Fixed Sand Dune

Analysis of the Landscape Fragmentation of Mobile Dune and the Desertification Process in Horqin Sandy Land Region

Study of dune curve static correction method in large desert area in Tarim basin

Infiltration Processes of Precipitation in a Revegetated Sand Dune with Caragana korshinskii Shrub

Identification of Holocene coastal dune rocks and beach rocks on South China coasts with artificial neural networks

The study was conducted to reveal the soil moisture content of the fixed sand dune tops and the sandy land among the dunes;

Fractal dimension of soil particle size distribution during the process of vegetation restoration in arid sand dune area

Grain-size Variation on a Transverse Dune and Response to Wind Direction Changes on Southern Edge of Mu Us Desert

Analysis on Spatial Variety of Soil Moisture and Characteristic Constant on Mobile Dune in Horqin Sandy Land

Irrigation Unit and its Calculation Formula for Plant Sand-fixation on Dune

Study on some characteristics of evaporation of sand dune and evapotranspiration of grassland in Mu Us desert

A Preliminary Study on Variation in Wind Velocity and Sediment Transport Rate on Windward Slope of Barchan Dune

Adaptation strategies of seed germination and seedling growth to sand dune environment

Studies on the Vegetation Distribution and Standing Biomass at the Coastal Sand dune of Pusan

Space-time Variety Characteristics of Soil Moisture on Mobile Dune in Liaoning Northwest Sandy Land

Discussion on Constructing The Dune-fixation Forest in Extreme Environments in Arid Region

Heterogeneity in Soil Seed Banks in a Mediterranean Coastal Sand Dune

Study on Soil Moisture and Water Balance in Processes of Dune Fixation Shrubs Development at Semi-arid Region

Distribution of ephemeral plants and their significance in dune stabilization in Gurbantunggut Desert

Water treatment via Desert Dune System: Principle, methodology and effects

Study on Characteristic of Moss Reproductive Biology in Fixed Dune Soil Crust of Shapotou Region

Natural vegetation characteristic of three sand dune types in the Minqin oasis-desert ecotone

Research on Temporal and Spacial Variety of Soil Moistures of Shifting Sand Dune and Four Main Plant Communities on Otindag Sandy Land

Application of Construction Process of Sand Dune Fixation for Chemical Churning Piles in Storm Sewer Works

Growth process and features of sand dune vegetation in sand tract in Menggu autonomous county

Effects of Soil Temperature and Moisture on Soil Respiration in Different Sand Dune Types

Variation in Dune Lee-Side Airflow and Its Significance

Dynamic Functions of Horizontal Airflow Vorticity to Dune Ripples

Characteristics of soil seed banks of sand dune succession process in Horqin Sandy Land

Classification and ordination analysis of plant communities in Inter-dune lowland in Hunshandak Sandy Land

Planning and Measure of Controlling Moving Sandy Dune in Xinglongzhao Forestry Farm, Naiman Qi, Inner Mongolia

Studied on the Influences of Coal Mining Collapse on the Soil Water Dynamics of Fixed Dune

Infiltration and redistribution process of rainfall in desert mobile sand dune

Analyse of Aeolian Sandy Fluidness on Dune Surface--A Case Study in North Sandy Land of Beijing

I laid on a dune, I looked at the sky,

Application of Dune Dispersion Method of Field Correction in the Central Area of Tarim Basin

Development Condition and Dynamic Change on Coastal Dune in the Changli

Research on Using Ecological Mat Controlling Mobile Sand Dune

Plantation techniques to dune along left bank of the second Songhua River

The impacts of different destructive modes on the vegetation of fix dune

The experiment of afforestation technology of Nitraria tangutorum on the mobile sand dune

Ecological adaptability of Pennisetum centrasiaticum clones on farmland- sand dune ecotone of Keerqin sandy

Studies on the in Vitro Culture of Three Windbreak and Dune-fixing Species

Communities of Typical Sand Dune-fixed Plants in the Central Part of Otindag Sandy Region

On the Chemical Sand Fixation Agent for Sand Dune Fixation in Desert

Interdune and middle-lower part of the dune

Hoar Frost on High Dune, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

Specific leaf area and leaf dry matter content of some plants in different dune habitats

The distribution characteristics of sandy soil densities on the dune surface and it's genesis

Study on Rules of Wind Erosion and Accumulated Sand for Moving Dune in Maowusu Sandy Land

Basic Characteristics in the Process of River Dune Formation

Wind erosion sand surface of the lower south-north dune

downstream face of the dune

Biomass Forcast Models of Nitraria Tangutorum Shrub in Sand Dune

Stability Analysis on the Lee Slope of Dune

Habitats and fixity of dune surface

The God Emperor of Dune,