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  • Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore located on the northeast side of Lake Michigan. Approximately 4 square miles in size, it was formed by retreating glaciers only 11,800 years ago.  Dunes on the Pierce Stocking Scenic drive - Lake Michigan overlook, 450 feet above the water.
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  • Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore located on the northeast side of Lake Mi chigan. Approximately 4 square miles in size, it was formed by retreating glaci ers only 11,800 years ago.
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  • Dune landscape in the wildlife sanctuary, Resrva Nactional de Paracas, Peru.  Sand dunes line the most important wildlife sanctuary on the Peruvian coast that is known for it's clear blue waters, birds and marine life.
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  • Hikers walking along the top ridge of a large sand dune in the Atacama Desert. Known as the driest place on earth, the desert is also considered the oldest. It has experienced semi-arid conditions for over 150 million years, and the inner core—the driest spot—has been hyper-arid for over 15 million years.
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  • Sunlight highlights grasses and sand dunes on the shore of Lake Michigan at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
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  • A freewheeling four-wheeler flies over the Coral Pink Sand Dunes of southwestern Utah. Part state park, part Bureau of Land Management wilderness quality land, the dunes are both playground and battleground. ATV riders fight for wide-open access: environmentalists for rare plant and animal species. <br />
The color is from the Navajo sandstone layer formed 190 million years ago in the early Jurassic period. High winds pass through the region whipping sand into piles and water seeped down into the sand, carrying minerals with a mineral composition of iron, calcium carbonate, and manganese which gave the rock warm colors.
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  • Freewheeling four-wheelers trek across Coral Pink Sand Dunes of southwestern Utah. Part state park, part Bureau of Land Management wilderness quality land, the dunes are both playground and battleground. ATV riders fight for wide-open access: environmentalists for rare plant and animal species. <br />
The orange/pink color is from the Navajo sandstone layer formed 190 million years ago in the early Jurassic period. High winds pass through the region whipping sand into piles and water seeped down into the sand, carrying minerals with a mineral composition of iron, calcium carbonate, and manganese which gave the rock warm hues.
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  • Wind-blown desert sand flows across the high plains on the edge of Wyoming’s Red Desert. Killpecker Sand Dunes are one of the largest living dune system in the United States. The high-desert ecosystem is varied with buttes, sagebrush steppe, mountains and dunes that form patterns of repetition across the landscape.
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  • Sand dunes encroach on the Pan American Highway, on Peru's coast blown from a secluded beach by strong coastal winds.  The paved but isolated section of the road hugs the coastline in the Sechura Desert south of Casma, Peru. <br />
The Pan American highway connects a myriad of countries and cultural experiences along the 10,000-mile portion of road that stretches through Latin America.  Bustling sophisticated cities contrast desolate desert and rural countryside in Mexico, Peru and Chile.
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  • Dune grasses glow with warm setting sun on the shore of Lake Michigan user a stormy sky at Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore.
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  • Hikers walking along the top ridge of a large dune in the Atacama Desert a region in north Chile that is considered the driest place on earth. Located between the Andes and Coastal mountains, the parched desert is formed by wind and erosion.
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  • Goats pack hiker’s supplies through the wind-blown sand flows and across the high plains on the edge of Wyoming’s Red Desert. An outdoor enthusiast started a business with his goats that follow along without being leashed. They wear bells in case they wander away and can be easily found in the open country but they are sure-footed and willing companions that can carry 30-65 pounds. They jump and run along beside hikers having the natural instinct to play follow the leader. The high-desert ecosystem is varied with buttes, sagebrush steppe, mountains and dunes.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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  • Racing camels are exercised in the morning to stay in shape.
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  • Racing camels are exercised in the morning to stay in shape.
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  • A windblown wild horse traverses a sparsely vegetated dune on Cumberland Island. Abandoned by Spanish settlers more than 500 years ago, according to local lore, about 160 feral horses today roam freely.
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  • Delicate rock formations shaped by wind erosion overlook the Grand Canyon. The Navajo sandstone layer formed 190 million years ago in the early Jurassic period. Southern Utah was much closer to the equator and giant, wind-whipped sand dunes dominated the landscape. Polar ice caps melted and the climate changed forming an inland sea that covered the Southwest. Water seeped down into the sand, carrying minerals with a mineral composition of iron, calcium carbonate, and manganese which gave the rock warm colors.
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  • Drivers using cell phones in a parking lot of a scenic stop in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. The 13-mile drive through ancient sand dunes is a protected area near Las Vegas under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management and Southern Nevada Conservancy.
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  • Crumbling walls of Chanquillo dated archeological site 350 BC. that is located just off the Pan American highway north of Lima and just south of Casma.  Several towers surrounded by concentric walls make up the remnants of the fortress. Surrounded by a parched landscape of sand dunes, little is known about the crumbled structure.  <br />
 Lack of funds have kept the archeological site from being excavated but it is believed that the stone walls may have been used for ritual battles rather than real ones.
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