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Dunes - Saucer-shaped blowouts


A saucer-shaped blowout is a shallow, dish-shaped hollow, sometimes occurring with a steep rim along its margin and a less-pronounced depositional lobe.

 

Shallow, saucer-shaped blowout on a parabolic dune.
(Hoffmaster State Park in October 2002).

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