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    space agency NASA in its study of the terrain of the planet Mars, the Bagnold Dunes on Mars' surface were named after him by the organisation. He returned...
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    Some linear dunes merge to form Y-shaped compound dunes. Formation is debated. Ralph Bagnold, in The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, suggested...
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    "Chemistry, mineralogy, and grain properties at Namib and High dunes, Bagnold dune field, Gale crater, Mars: A synthesis of Curiosity rover observations"...
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    Ottoman Tripolitania became known as Libya.) In his book Libyan Sands, Ralph Bagnold went as far as to suggest that the Libyan Desert was a separate geographical...
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    types of dunes. Bagnold's classification is most applicable in areas devoid of vegetation. In 1941, John Tilton Hack added parabolic dunes, which are...
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  • Land forms in Yakutia, Russian Federation Bagnold, Ralph (1941). The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes. Archie, Deithra L. "Aeolian Processes and...
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  • http://www.kattara-utopie.de Annotations. Central University Libraries at Southern Methodist University. Vol. VI, No. 1, Spring 2004. Bagnold, R. A. (1933). "A...
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    scenery of wind-formed dunes with occasional oases fringed with palm" (although such areas do exist in the Sand Sea where dunes are sculpted into fantastic...
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  • impassable range of low dunes unmarked on the map. After several members fell sick and one of the cars was abandoned in the dunes with a broken axle, the...
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    Aeolian Sand and Sand Dunes. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-85910-9. Bagnold, Ralph A. (1941). "The physics of blown sand and desert dunes". Nature. 148 (3756):...
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