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Giant Sand Dunes of Oregon that Inspired Frank Herbert to Write Dune

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Dune, one of the world's best-selling sci-fi novel, was inspired by giant sand dunes here on Earth.In the late 1950s, Frank Herbert visited the Oregon Dunes, a 40-mile long stretch of windswept sand along the coast. The coastal sand dunes had been there for 100,000 years but human development had encroached on the area and the drifting dunes were threatening to swallow houses and roads. Humanity's answer was one of the largest geo-engineering pr…

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