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Travels in Geology: The desert geology of Namibia: A writer and her father explore otherworldly dunes, oases and meteorites


Travels in Geology: The desert geology of Namibia: A writer and her father explore otherworldly dunes, oases and meteorites
by Kathrina Szymborski
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Any minute now a giant sandworm will burst out of the ground and devour me, I thought as I collapsed on the sand. Just like in Frank Herbert’s book, “Dune,” about an alien desert planet.
I had just climbed Dune 45, the world’s most photographed dune, in Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. The sand slipped out from under my feet with each step I took up the 170-meter-high dune. The wind, tame in the valley below, hurled sharp grains of sand against my face. The sun seared my skin. I suddenly understood why the desert Fremen people in “Dune” only moved at night. ....

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