A small road ran across the bridge, through the fields, and over a hill.

The desert is there, sand dunes, some small field.

A nice way to show that river, that stream sort of pouring down the hill.

So let's make architectural sand dunes and a beach cabana.

But what is enveloping Machu Picchu from below?

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Mounds visualizes the entire dataset as large, gelatinous blobs which kind of jiggle.

Her name is Pam Moran in Albemarle County, Virginia, the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The school is on top of the hill.

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The children ran down the hill.

The river's on the other side of the hill.

What happens is that the wind blows the sand up the shallow slope on the other side, and then, as each sand grain hits the top of the ridge, it cascades down on the inside of the crescent, and so the whole horn shaped dune moves.

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If you want to stop a sand dune from moving, what you need to make sure to do is to stop the grains from avalanching over its crest.

And when you go to the beach, what do you get? You get sand dunes.

It's a target in the thalamus.

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The beautiful thing is that it moves bodily.

The final movement is called Mounds.

There's hundreds, up to a 1,000 or 1,200 miles of dunes.

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Now, these ideas and these events allow us even to deconstruct iconic places that many of you have been to, like Machu Picchu.

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You're looking at brine pools formed by salt diapirs.

We then pull the piles up through the dune and we're able to create almost any conceivable shape inside of the sand with the sand acting as a mold as we go up.

Inside of the dunes we find shade.

It's obviously a place which is very dry, or you wouldn't get dunes.

And from where you're standing at 6,000 feet in the valley, it's an easy hike up to the mature pinyon and juniper forest through that knoll at the front at 7,600 feet.

This is what I saw. I saw hills and valleys.

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On the left hand side there is a large volcano called Axial Seamount.

And we're going to go down into the Axial Seamount using animation.

Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale, into a sand dune.

Sand dunes are almost like ready made buildings in a way.

Very high density living on the side of a hill.

The intiwatana, the hitching post to the sun, is actually an obelisk that constantly reflects the light that falls on the sacred Apu of Machu Picchu, which is Sugarloaf Mountain, called Huayna Picchu.

The relief of the Central African Republic consists of plains in the centre and the south, plateaux in the west, and two large massifs, the Fertit Hills in the north east and the Yadé Massif in the north west.

So they went out and they modeled a computer model of a sand dune.

It says, well, there's the sea, there are dunes, and I'm here.

It was said to echo in Churchill's brain in the 1930s.