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Dune (software)
A dune is a hill of sand. Dune or dunes may also refer to: Places and buildings * Düne, Heligoland, Germany * Dunes, Tarn-et-Garonne, France * Dune (crater), on the Moon * Dunes (hotel and casino), Paradise, Nevada, US * Dunes Hotel and Casino (Atlantic City), US, unbuilt Science fiction Dune (franchise), ''Dune'' (franchise) of novels, films, and games: * Dune (novel), ''Dune'' (novel), a 1965 novel by Frank Herbert * Arrakis or Dune, a fictional planet * Dune (1984 film), ''Dune'' (1984 film), a 1984 film directed by David Lynch * ''Frank Herbert's Dune'', a 2000 television miniseries * ''Frank Herbert's Children of Dune'', a 2003 television miniseries * Dune (2021 film), ''Dune'' (2021 film), a 2021 film directed by Denis Villeneuve * ''Dune: Part Two'', the 2024 sequel to Villeneuve's 2021 film * ''Dune: Prophecy'', a television series * Dune (board game), ''Dune'' (board game) (1979) * ''Dune'' (1984 board game), see List of games based on Dune, List of games based on ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dune
A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune system or a dune complex. A large dune complex is called a dune field, while broad, flat regions covered with wind-swept sand or dunes, with little or no vegetation, are called ''Erg (landform), ergs'' or ''sand seas''. Dunes occur in different shapes and sizes, but most kinds of dunes are longer on the wiktionary:stoss, stoss (upflow) side, where the sand is pushed up the dune, and have a shorter ''slip face'' in the lee side. The valley or trough between dunes is called a ''dune slack''. Dunes are most common in desert environments, where the lack of moisture hinders the growth of vegetation that would otherwise interfere with the development of dunes. However, sand deposits are not restricted to deserts, and dunes are also found along sea shores, along streams in semiarid climates, in areas of Outwash plain, glacial outwash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
