Field guide No. 352

Golden dunes roll away under a blue sky, then rise into a row of sheer vertical walls of sand, pouring at the edges but not falling. Sand is supposed to know better.

Dunes defying gravity

The desert, stood on end.

Golden dunes roll away under a blue sky, then rise into a row of sheer vertical walls of sand, pouring at the edges but not falling. Sand is supposed to know better.

Field noteLoose sand slumps to its angle of repose. These walls ignore the angle entirely.

Specimen
No. 352
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A sea of dunes, blue sky.
Nearest existing relative
A sand dune.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Spaces

Also possible, also breaking physics