A low mound, ridge, bank, or hill of loose, windblown granular material (generally sand, sometimes volcanic ash), either bare or covered with vegetation, capable of movement from place but always retaining its characteristic shape. (Source: BJGEO)



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Holm E, Scholtz CH 1980. Structure and pattern of the Namib Desert dune ecosystem at Gobabeb. Madoqua 12 (1) 5-39
Goudie A 1970. Notes on Some Major Dune Types in Southern Africa. South African Geographical Journal 52 (1) 93-101
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Comrie-Greig J 1986. Ostriches at the gallop. African Wildlife 40 15
Livingstone I 2003. A twenty-one-year record of surface change on a Namib linear dune. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 28 (9) 1025-1031
Livingstone I 1989. Monitoring surface change on a Namib linear dune. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 14 (4) 317-332
Stokes S, Haynes G, Thomas DSG, Horrocks JL, Higginson M, Malifa M 1998. Punctuated aridity in southern Africa during the last glacial cycle: The chronology of linear dune construction in the northeastern Kalahari. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 137 (3-4) 305-322
Lancaster N 2013. Dune Fields / Low Latitudes. Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (Second Edition) 623-636
Tsoar H 2013. Critical environments: sand dunes and climate change. Treatise on Geomorphology, 11: Aeolian Geomorphology 414-427
Wiggs GFS 2013. Dune morphology and dynamics. Treatise on Geomorphology, 11: Aeolian Geomorphology 201-218
Lancaster N 2013. Sand seas and dune fields. Treatise on Geomorphology, 11: Aeolian Geomorphology 219-245
Breton C, Lancaster N, Nickling WG 2008. Magnitude and frequency of grain flows on a desert sand dune. Geomorphology 95 (3-4) 518-523
Teller JT, Lancaster N 1986. Lacustrine sediments at Narabeb in the central Namib Desert, Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 56 (3-4) 177-195
Lancaster N, Schaber GG, Teller JT 2000. Orbital Radar Studies of Paleodrainages in the Central Namib Desert. Remote Sensing of Environment 71 (2) 216-225
Livingstone I, Bristow C, Bryant RG, Bullard J, White K, Wiggs GFS, Baas ACW, Bateman MD, Thomas DSG 2010. The Namib Sand Sea digital database of aeolian dunes and key forcing variables. Aeolian Research 2 (2-3) 93-104
Joubert EC, Harms TM, Muller A, Hipondoka M, Henschel JR 2012. A CFD study of wind patterns over a desert dune and the effect on seed dispersion. Environmental Fluid Mechanics 12 (1) 23-44
Turner JS, Henschel JR, Lubin YD 1993. Thermal constraints on prey-capture behavior of a burrowing spider in a hot environment. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 33 (1) 35-43