The Rotliegend reservoir at Groningen is mainly an aeolian sand with local development of fluvial wadi sands.

Identification of aeolian sands was completed with an attempt to age their deposition.

Grayish aeolian sand overlies the bedrock and overlying that is a pebble layer.

The formation is a sedimentary unit, consisting mainly of aeolian sands and silts with interbedded fluvial sediments, laid down during a period of increasing aridity.

Continentally aeolian sand became more widespread; the coeval Weber Sandstone was deposited in northeast Utah (Dinosaur National Monument region, northeast of the Uncompahgre Uplift).

In coastal aeolian sands which have large amounts of calcium (derived from marine shells) the movement of water to the roots would drive the flow of calcium to the root surface.

In former times aeolian sand (Flugsand) even entered villages that then had to be abandoned.

The soils east of the Darling Scarp are generally too heavy for this species, with the exception of some isolated pockets of deep alluvial or aeolian yellow sand.

The three areas are connected by low-lying estuarine and aeolian sands.

The bedrock of the region is Cretaceous/Paleocene limestone and clay, which was cut by erosion and covered by aeolian sand in the Upper Pleistocene.