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    White Sands National Park is a national park of the United States located in the state of New Mexico and completely surrounded by the White Sands Missile...
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    Carrizozo and San Antonio. It then became the White Sands Proving Ground on 9 July 1945. White Sands National Park founded in the 1930s is located within the...
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    The White Sands fossil footprints are a set of fossilized human footprints discovered in 2009 in the White Sands National Park in New Mexico. In 2021 they...
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  • White Sands may refer to: White Sands, New Mexico, United States, residential area and national park of the White Sands Missile Range White Sands Missile...
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    (43 km) east of Las Cruces, the county seat. The entrance to White Sands National Park is 34 miles (55 km) to the northeast, up US 70. According to the...
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    Sand (redirect from Beach sands)
    gypsum and selenite, as is found in places such as White Sands National Park and Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge in the U.S. Sand is a non-renewable...
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    DOA". "White Sands National Park". National Park Service. December 26, 2019. Retrieved December 27, 2019. "Wind Cave National Park". National Park Service...
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    veins in Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway, Texas Dunes made of small crystals of gypsum, White Sands National Park Commercial quantities of gypsum...
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  • yr B.P. However, a series of human tracks were identified at White Sands National Park, New Mexico, which have been dated contentiously dated to between...
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    TX, is a 3,200 square mile US Army facility which also hosts White Sands National Park. The first atomic bomb was test detonated at Trinity Site near...
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    include White Sands National Park, Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, the Carrizozo Malpais lava flow, Holloman Air Force Base, and the White Sands Missile...
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    observed on location at Rio Grande National Forest, White Sands National Park, Santa Fe National Forest, and Cibola National Forest, among other locations...
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    within that section of the Tularosa Basin that is contained within White Sands National Park in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The playa is noted for the unusually...
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    Units of the National Park System of the United States is the collection of physical properties owned or administered by the National Park Service. As...
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    amounts of limestone mountains surround a closed basin, such as at White Sands National Park in south-central New Mexico, occasional storm runoff transports...
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    California, Mexico Chihuahuan Desert Trans-Pecos Desert, west Texas White Sands, unusual gypsum dune field in New Mexico The separately defined western...
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    Dune (redirect from Dune (sands))
    Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park, California. Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado. White Sands National Park, New Mexico. Little Sahara Recreation...
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    Gravels. Above this layer of gravel is another layer of fine river channel sands, where the skull was found. The age of this fossil is as young as 2 million...
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    Plains National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma, USA Lake Lucero, White Sands National Park, New Mexico, USA Lechuguilla Cave, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New...
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    Sacramento Ranger District of the Lincoln National Forest. Rising high above the gypsum sands of White Sands National Park and the city of Alamogordo, the Sacramento...
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    brackish water, is located in Alamogordo. The gypsum crystals of White Sands National Park are formed in Lake Lucero. Water drains from the mountains carrying...
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    Passport to Your National Parks is a program through which ink stamps can be acquired at no cost at park visitor centers and ranger stations at nearly...
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    Park, Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks National Monument, Petroglyph National Monument, Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, and White Sands National Park...
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    The White Sands V-2 Launching Site, also known as Launch Complex 33 and originally as Army Launch Area Number 1, is an historic rocket launch complex...
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    well as mammoth and giant ground sloth tracks have been found at White Sands National Park. Near Alamogordo, New Mexico A recent marsupial trackway site...
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    Socorro, New Mexico Moonrise at White Sands National Park in New Mexico Sunset at Delicate Arch in Arches National Park in Utah The Bonneville Salt Flats...
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    subspecies Neotoma micropus leucophaea: White Sands woodrat, is white in coloration and found only at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. N. micropus inhabits...
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    – south El Paso County, Texas – southwest Lincoln National Forest (part) White Sands National Park (part) As of the 2000 census, there were 62,298 people...
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    and grazing. Northeast of White Lake is a small area of white gypsum dunes, similar to those found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, though these...
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    Big Bend National Park White Sands National Park Caverns of Sonora McKittrick Canyon Wind Cave National Park Mammoth Cave National Park U.S. Forest Service...
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