Want to know how amazing
fireworkst wave-li
ke dunes of gypsum
sand have engulf
ed 275 square miles of desert
here and
created the largest gypsum dune f
ield
in the world.
The dunes, bril
liant and white, are ever changing.
Th
ey grow, crest, then slump but always
advance.
Slowly but
relentlessly t
he sand, driven by strong southwest winds, covers everything in its path.
harsh envir
onment of the
dune field, e
ven plants and animals adapted
to
desert cond
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s struggle to survive. Only a few spec
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Promo for ies of plants grow rapidly enough to survive
burial by the moving dunes, but severa
l types of small animals have evolved white co
lorations to camouflage them in the gy