sand dune
 
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Geography: banks & embankments
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Examples from literature

It was a low shore on which the fine sand, some fifteen feet deep, lay drifted into hillocks or dunes. 
The dunes extend for miles: an empty wilderness of sand with the grey North Sea beyond. 
The loose sand, in which these shells are packed, is heaped into low, straight, long lines of dunes, like those left by the sea at the head of many bays. 
This time the tide was in, so he crossed the dunes and struck the shore on the further side of the quicksand. 
We were thrown out upon the dunes. 

dune | American Dictionary

dune
noun[ C ]
us/dun/(alsosand dune)
a hill of sand beside a beach or in a desert

Examples of dune

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Sand grains' ping-pong-like movement becomes obvious and dune formation simplicity itself.
A large area of the district consists of sand dunes and barren land.
It is postulated that these two modes correspond to the formation of ripples and dunes respectively.
Parking is provided on the ground floor, part submerged by dunes and marram grasses.
The performance took place along a cliff top which dropped to a lagoon protected from the ocean by a thick sand dune.
The peninsula contains different types of tropical vegetation such as tropical deciduous forest, thorn scrub, mangroves, grassland, marshlands and dunes.
The perturbations are migrating downstream indicating the formation of dunes.
However, the same winds could help to disperse microbes within gypsum sand grains which accumulate in dune structures.
Deposits occur red above fair-weather wave base in a shoreface environment, built up by amalgamated event beds and dunes.
Data from 19 tree species were collected from 20 transects in coastal dune forest.
The predominant habitats are marshes, mediterranean scrublands and sand dunes.
The starting point of each transect was typically the crest/valley of the second longitudinal dune from the shoreline (50 m from the forest edge).
Using physically plausible estimates for these parameters the results of the analysis are in good agreement with observations for both ripples and dunes.
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