New Mexico. Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 27
5 square miles of desert
h
ere and created
the largest gypsu
m dune field
in the world.
The dunes, bri
lliant and white, 
are ever changing
. They grow, crest, then s
- lump but always advance. Slowly but relen
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- tlessly the sand, driven by strong southwest winds, covers everything in its pa
- Participants will be able to identify
- th. Within the extremely harsh env
- ironment of the dune field, even p
- lants and animals adapted to desert conditions struggle to survive. Only
- a few species of plants grow rapidly enough to survive burial by the moving dunes, but several
types of small
- animals have evolved white colorations to camouflage them in the gypsum sand. White Sands National Monument preserves a major part of this gypsum dune field, along with
- the plants and animals that have adapted successfully to this constantly changing environment.At the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert lies a mountain-ringed valley, the Tularosa Basin. R
- ising from the heart of this basin is one of the world's great natural wonders-the glistening white sands of New Mexico. Great
- wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert here and created the largest gypsum dune field in the world. The dun
- es, brilliant and white, are ever changing. They grow, crest, then slump but always advance. Slowly but relentlessly the sand, driven by strong southwes
- t winds, covers everything in its path. Within the extremely harsh environment of the dune field, even plants and animals adapted to desert conditions st
- ruggle to survive. Only a few species of plants grow rapidly enough to survive burial by the moving dunes, but several types of small animals have evolved white colorations to camouf
- lage them in the gypsum sand. White Sands National Monument preserves a major part of this gypsum dune field, along w
- ith the plants and animals that have adapted successfully to this constantly changing environment.At the northern end of
- the Chihuahuan Desert lies a mountain-ringed valley, the Tularosa Basin. Rising from the heart of this
basin is one of th
e world's great natural wonders-the glistening white sands of New Mexico. Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of
- desert here and creat
- ed the largest gypsum
- Small vs. large bombs lab
- dune field in the world. The dune
- s, brilliant and white,
are ever changing. They grow, crest, then slump but always advance. Slowly but relentlessly the sand, driven by strong southwest winds, covers everything in its path. Within the extremely harsh environment of the dune field, even plants and animals adapted to desert conditions struggle to survive. Only a few species of plants grow rapidly enough to survive burial by the moving dunes, but several types of small animals ha
white colorations
to camouflage t
Performance Level IRTB Classes
hem in the gypsum sand. White Sands National Monument preserves a major part of this gypsum dune field, along with the plants and animals that have adapted successfully to t
- his constantly changing environme
- nt.At the northern end of the Chihu
- ahuan Desert
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