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Scholarly Articles & Publications:


Booming Sands of the Mojave Desert and the Basin and Range Province, California.  P. K. Haff, June 1979.

Booming Sand Dunes  Melany L. Hunt and Nathalie M. Vriend, 2011

Singing Sands, musical grains and booming sand dunes.  A.J. Patitsas, 2008

Solving the mystery of booming sand dunes.  Nathalie M. Vriend, et.al., 2007

Sound-Producing Sand Avalanches.  Franco Nori, et.al.  1997.

Sound-Producing Sand in Japan: Major Element Composition and Its Minerals Determined by X-Ray Diffraction and X-ray Fluorescence.  Chiaki Igarashi and Naotatsu Shikazono.  2003.

The Song of Dunes as Wave-Particle Mode Locking.  B. Andreotti, 2004. 


Internet:


World Map of Singing Sands

Wikipedia- Singing Sand

Booming Sand Dunes- Caltech Booming Sand Dunes Research

How did Sand Mountain Form? (Nevada BLM)

The Troubled Song of the Sand Dunes

Sound-Producing Sand Avalanches

The Bibliography of Aeolian Research

The Morphodynamics Lab

Singing and Booming Sand Dunes of California and Nevada

Article from The National, an Abu Dhabi Newspaper

Altyn-Emel National Park (Wikipedia)

Singing Sands in Chile (email correspondence)

Secrets of the Singing Sands, New York Times Article

Singing Sand Dunes: The Mystery of Desert Music

Singing Sand- the New York Moon

Singing to the Tune of Sand- Physics World

The Sound of Seismic- Singing Sands

Xiangshawan Singing Sands at the Gobi Desert


Sands- Astronomycafe

Singing Sand Dunes: The Mystery of Desert Music

Sand Mountain, Nevada

A good explanation of the difference between squeaking sand and singing sands

Weird California - Singing Sands & Booming Dunes

Musical Sand

Singing Sand Dunes- NationMaster

Photos of Kongoriin Els, Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Soundscape to Singing Sand and Sandproject- Artistic Investigation
(artistic ventures based on the phenomenon of singing sand)

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