What we see is a small plane carrying two people _ a pilot and a female passenger whose long blond hair billows sensually over the voluptuous desert dunes.
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The sand dunes, some of which are high and span long, are the second largest in the world after the Badain Jaran Desert dunes in China.
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This process not only accounts for the progressive reddening of alluvium but also the fact that older desert dune sands are more intensely reddened than their younger equivalents.
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The formula was derived by Bagnold in 1936 and later published in his book " The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes " in 1941.
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To stall sand erosion, it installed a mesh fence that reduces wind speed by 50 percent and helped arrange the planting of grids of straw and branches in the desert dunes.
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Toyota's 4Runner sport-utility vehicle comes in a " desert dune " color that's not a white, beige or silver, but some of all three.
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It was uncovered a year ago by a 40-person research team led by French paleontologists in a remote, wind-scoured stretch of desert dunes, but since was kept from public view.
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It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Ralph A . Bagnold, English author of " The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes ", 1941.
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The "'Namib Desert dune ant "', " Camponotus detritus ", is a large ant species distinguished by white and black symmetrical stripes and markings on its hairy abdomen.
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Another important conservation area is the Parna�ba River delta, between the states of Maranh�o and Piau? with its lagoons, desert dunes and deserted beaches or islands, such as the Caju island, which shelters rare birds.
