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A sad story of desert preservation
A story that appeared all over the news recently caught my eye for a number of reasons - here’s an example of the headlines: “Frozen in the sands of time: Eerie...
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Icons old and deep
Thanks to Walter for bringing to my attention this particularly resonant and compelling image from the recent coverage of the investigation of a dramatic shipwr...
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Reposing differently on Mars
Sand, Mars, and a challenge to conventional wisdom. What better ingredients for a post could I wish for? The two images above show sedimentary fan deposits, the...
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Granular flow: the icon continues to surprise
Anyone who reads this blog (and/or the book) will know that I have developed a deep fascination with the bizarre behaviours of granular materials: sand, a seemi...
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Guest post: a gallery of sand photographers' styles
Kurt Meyer writes: SHOOTING SAND For the last 15 years, on and off, I have been collecting sand. The “off” times resulted from not having an answer to the quest...
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April 2012
Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives
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A personal bloggy milestone
I realise that, in the grand panoply of the global blogosphere, this is but a mote of dust, on a scale more diminutive than a grain of fine sand tossed into the...
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March 2012
Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives
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February 2012
Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives
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Caption competition?
Well, sorry, no, this is just too easy: guess “World’s biggest bunker!” or “World’s biggest sand trap!” (depending on which side of the Atlantic your golfing pe...
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