View from Highway 16 in W direction to Cerro El Dragón (left side) and to Iquique. The enormous dune Cerro El Dragón has developed during the ice ages when a sand-covered marine terrace, now submerged beneath the sea surface, was exposed to the winds.

Keywords

aeolian processes, cityscape, coastscape, dunescape, hot deserts, mountaintop, Zonobiome III

Created

Tuesday 6 February 2018 by Martin Mergili in South America / Chile (1981 visits)