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the ground-up corpse of mountains, patiently becoming your beach umbrella's worst enemy
means the fine, loose granular material formed from the erosion of rock and shells, found on beaches, in deserts, and at the bottom of rivers and seas.
from From Old English 'sand,' a thoroughly Germanic word with siblings across the family — Dutch 'zand,' German 'Sand,' Old Norse 'sandr.' These all trace back to a Proto-Germanic root, and likely beyond it to a Proto-Indo-European source possibly related to Greek 'ammos' and Latin 'sabulum' (the ancestor of words like 'sable' meaning coarse sand). The word has stayed remarkably unchanged for over a thousand years — fitting, perhaps, for something that outlasts the mountains it came from.
- glass origin
- Melted sand becomes the windows you stare through
- running out
- World's second-most consumed resource after water
- desert myth
- Desert sand is too smooth for construction
- singing dunes
- Some dunes hum at 100 decibels
- tiny travelers
- Saharan dust fertilizes the Amazon rainforest
sahara desert — 9 million square kilometers of sand across north africa, the world's largest hot desert
sand dunes of namibia — sossusvlei dunes in namibia reach over 300 meters high, among earth's tallest sand dunes
arabian desert sand — covers 2.3 million square kilometers across saudi arabia, iraq, and surrounding countries