During the day, S. gouldingi is found on patches of loose sand where the water flow forms ephemeral sand ripples.
The floors of the oceans will be surveyed and sidescanned down to every last sand ripple and anchor scar.
Starlight defined a shelf beyond, a suggestion of sand ripples.
The formation of sand ripples, dunes, and sandsheets Some of the pattern-forming behaviourshave been possible to reproduce in computer simulations.
One of the major findings from this investigation concerns the orientation of sand ripples at the site.
Its fine sand ripples appear only during low tide and it stretches well over a kilometer in length.
Laurent and I went for a walk on the packed wet sand and enjoyed the fading light on the water trapped in sand ripples.
Lenticular bedding occurs when sand ripples are deposited in mud in an isolated distribution pattern.
Individual sand ripples are created, which are later infilled by mud during quieter flow periods.
"You see where the ground starts to break up into a series of little sand ripples?"