White American Desert - White Sands

 

 

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White American Desert - White Sands

via THE WORLD GEOGRAPHY by Admin on 1/19/11

Rising from the heart of the Tularosa Basin is one of the world's great natural wonders - the glistening white sands of New Mexico, USA. Here, great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert and created the world's largest gypsum dune field.




Gypsum is rarely found in the form of sand because it is water-soluble. Normally, rain would dissolve the gypsum and carry

 

 

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