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Mountains To Dust

The dunes' dark bands are often made up of magnetite particulate washed downstream from the Sangre De Cristo mountains after strong storms. While the light...
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The dunes' dark bands are often made up of magnetite particulate washed downstream from the Sangre De Cristo mountains after strong storms. While the lighter material arrives from the San Luis Valley to the southwest on prevailing winds. All that substrate gets carried by updrafts to the dune ridges and creates the intricate zebra-like stripe pattern.
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