
Episode 128: Wind, Deserts, and Coasts
The Science of Everything Podcast
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What Are Longitudinal Junes?
A baan june is a crescent shaped dune, where the points of the crescents face down wind. They tend to form in areas where there's a hard ground surface and a moe ate supply of sand. If you have a larger supply of sand, effectively that leads to more bacan junes forming on top of each other. The opposite of a transverse june is known as a longitudinal june. Longitudinal junes typically form when there is a relatively small supply of sand and also wind that changes direction. All that comes from different directions.
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