• The dunes in soft light

    White Sands

    National Monument New Mexico

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Mammal Research

Development of Functional Organization of the Pallid Bat Auditory Cortex
 
Neural Mechanisms Underlying Selectivity for the Rate and Direction of Frequency-Modulated Sweeps in the Inferior Colliculus of the Pallid Bat
 
Development of Inhibitory Mechanisms Underlying Selectivity for the Rate and Direction of Frequency-Modulated Sweeps in the Auditory Cortex
 
Mammoth Footprints from the Upper Pleistocene from the Tularosa Basin, Dona Ana County, New Mexico

Did You Know?

Photo of hiker on the dunes

Only the top few inches of the gypsum dunes are made of loose sand. Rainwater falling on the dunes dissolves some of the gypsum and cements the sand grains together, creating a crude form of plaster of Paris. This makes the white sand dunes easy to walk on.