The sand that makes up the dunes had traveled ... I took off at sunrise, running down the windward slope of the dune. After gaining 500 feet, I felt like an insect flying over an enormous conveyor ...

The test dune consists of four different cross sections: A sandy dune; a dyke (sand covered with hard dyke slope); a ...

As an incipient foredune builds up, and out, sand inundation and salt spray levels decrease, while nutrient levels and vegetation cover increase, resulting in more stable dunes. The lee slope (i.e ...

The beach might not be the first activity that comes to mind when visiting the Lake Michigan area, but perhaps it should be, ...

Iverson, J. D. & Rasmussen, K. R. The effect of wind speed and bed slope on sand transport. Sedimentology 46, 723-731 (1999). Olson, J. S. Lake Michigan dune development — plants as agents and ...

The wind is continuously moving sand grains up the longer dune slope, towards the top. The small ripples on the slope are caused by this movement. When the sand grains arrive at the top ...

“They come in and they determine how much sand we’ll need, what the slope of the dune should look like, how high the dune should be,” said Mayor West. With this portion of Tybee’s Beach not covered by ...