Dunes City is a city in Lane County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,303 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau,
seas. Dunes occur in different shapes and sizes, but most kinds of dunes are longer on the stoss (upflow) side, where the sand is pushed up the dune, and
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is an American national park that conserves an area of large sand dunes up to 750 feet (230 m) tall on the
are informal, some based on the sand dunes in the science fiction book Dune. Krell, Alexis (July 6, 2019). "The Dune Peninsula and Frank Herbert Trail —
Blassingame, that the moving dunes could "swallow whole cities, lakes, rivers, highways." Herbert's article on the dunes, "They Stopped the Moving Sands"