using luminescence dating – examining the amount of energy trapped inside the dune’s grains of sand – to determine Lala Lallia’s age. Scientists found the dune took 900 years to form ...

By taking sand cores, they could collect grains from ... them look like stars,” Duller told CNN. Surprisingly, the Lala Lallia dune is also moving. It covers around half a meter each year.

Now scientists have discovered that a dune called Lala Lallia in Morocco formed 13,000 ... is located in the Erg Chebbi sand sea in south-east Morocco. It is 100m high and 700m wide with radiating ...