In Retrospect: the physics of sand dunes

Philip Ball
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Philip Ball: Philip Ball is a consultant editor for Nature. His forthcoming book series is Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts.

Nature, 2009, vol. 457, issue 7233, 1084-1085

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.

Date: 2009
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