The Pyramid Point Trail is a 2.6 mile loop that passes through the remnants of 19th-century farms. The view is epic, but the ...

Hoffmaster's Dune Overlook trail is a main attraction. The trail is a half-mile roundtrip, with about 220 steps to the two ...

A man has been left with two broken legs after a morning stroll with his dogs ended with him careening down a steep sand dune. The man, aged in his 50s, plunged 30metres down the sandy cliff ...

The dunes of all types advance by the deposition of sand on the steep leeward slip face, which usually develops a sinuous slipface with an angle generally between 32°–34° or steeper angles ...

While droves of vacationers flock to beaches overlooking the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, inland residents enjoy Michigan's rolling sand dunes, ocean-like shoreline and sweeping vistas.

Iverson, J. D. & Rasmussen, K. R. The effect of wind speed and bed slope on sand transport. Sedimentology 46, 723-731 (1999). Olson, J. S. Lake Michigan dune development — plants as agents and ...

A man has been left with two broken legs after a morning stroll with his dogs ended with him careening down a steep sand dune. The man, aged in his 50s, plunged 30metres down the sandy cliff while ...

saving a passenger airplane from a crash landing and climbing a steep sand dune to help a stranded dune buggy. As crazy as the first two commercials were, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

this natural oasis protects 65 miles of rugged Lake Michigan shoreline famous for its towering bluffs topped with fields of deep sand and tall grasses. To understand where the Sleeping Bear Dunes ...

Sand grains that are very round and dry (moisture on the dune's surface can cause sand to clump together, inhibiting avalanching) Grains on the dune's surface that are "well sorted," meaning they ...

For an exhilarating experience, visitors can try sandboarding or sand sledding down the dunes. Like snowboarding and sledding ...