In Retrospect: the physics of sand dunes
Abstract
Ralph Bagnold's wartime posting to map the dunes of North Africa was like a desert epic - and it inspired his classic text on how wind-blown grains self-organize into regular patterns, explains Philip Ball.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- February 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1038/4571084a
- Bibcode:
- 2009Natur.457.1084B