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Image number: 1337
Feature : roaring sands
Grouping : aeolian deposits
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1999
Locality : Witsand Nature Reserve-Olifantshoek
Country : South-Africa
Region - tribe : Northern Cape
Physiographic region : Vaal & Orange River basin
Notice : notice White sands in the brownish Namib sand sea. At a certain temperature, tumbling of these sands makes deep noise
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1999    Image 1337.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"