Looking Inside a Dune for its Boom
JUN 20, 2007
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.021216
ScienceNow : Marco Polo heard them in the Gobi Desert, Charles Darwin in Chile, and physicists have been trying to explain them for 100 years. But booming sand dunes have remained mysterious. Now, a combined acoustic and seismological study of California dunes points to a natural internal structure that amplifies the sound of sliding sand at select frequencies.
© 2007 American Institute of Physics
