A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Ripples in gypsum sand, White Sands |
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| Description | White Sands National Monument is at the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert in the Tularosa Basin. Unlike most deserts, the sands here are made of gypsum (not quartz). Here we see ripples with crests separated by about 5 cm. |
| Location | USA ▹ New Mexico. Near Alamogordo. White Sands National Monument. |
| Photographer | Dexter Perkins. 1999. |
| Collection | Dexter Perkins A401118991V. |
| Key words | gypsum, sand, White Sands, ripples |
| Tech details | 551 KB. Outcrop. Canon A1, Agfachrome 100. |
| GeoDIL number | 1693 |
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