In deserts, which dunes are the most stable?
Friday, May 28, 2010 - 14:00
in Physics & Chemistry
By modeling a desert where the wind blows in two directions, French researchers from CNRS and Universite Paris Dideror have succeeded in observing and highlighting, for the very first time, the formation process and long-term evolution of two types of very large sand dunes: transverse dunes and longitudinal dunes.