A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Ripples in gypsum sand, White Sands National Monument, New Mexico |
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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 caused by blowing wind with a footprint for scale. |
| Location | USA ▹ New Mexico. Near Alamogordo. White Sands National Monument. |
| Photographer | Dexter Perkins. 1999. |
| Key words | gypsum, sand, White Sands, ripples |
| Tech details | 484 KB. Hand specimen. Canon A1, Agfachrome 100. |
| GeoDIL number | 1694 |
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