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This 'Dune' isn't fiction. It's the longest conveyer belt in the US and moving sand in Texas
(AP Photo/Julio Cortez) A sand dune is backdropped by Atlas Energy plant at the beginning of a 42-mile conveyor belt that carries sand needed for hydraulic fracturing Wednesday, Feb. 26 ...
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From seed to dune: how can a tiny seed help protect the coastline?
Dunes are considered to be essential for coastal protection. In countries like the Netherlands, where one third of the ...
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Along With Its New Park, Ocean Beach Gets a Dunescaping
Sea-level rise is threatening San Francisco’s shores. In February, the city began vegetating the sand dunes as part of its ...
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SwRI receives $3 million NASA astrobiology grant to study microbial life in Alaska’s arctic sand dunes
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received a three-year, $2,999,998 million grant from NASA to identify and ...
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This 'Dune' isn't fiction. It's the longest conveyer belt in the US and moving sand in Texas
KERMIT, Texas — It's longer than the width of Rhode Island, snakes across the oil fields of the southwest U.S. and crawls at 10 mph – too slow for a truck and too long for a train. It's the ...
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This 'Dune' isn't fiction. It's the longest conveyer belt in the US and moving sand in Texas
conveyer belt to transport millions of tons of sand for hydraulic fracturing. The belt the company named “The Dune Express” runs from tiny Kermit, Texas, and across state borders into Lea ...