Category: Beaches and Sand Dunes
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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Michigan in the Great Lakes Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Did you know that Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore along Lake Michigan encompasses many sand dunes, some of which tower hundreds of feet above the lake? Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the lower peninsula of Michigan runs for miles along the shoreline of…
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Sand Dunes
Michigan in the Great Lakes Sand Dunes Have you ever climbed a sand dune? There are a lot of them in West Michigan. The sand on the beaches here is made up of quartz, feldspar and magnetite. It comes from bedrock that was crushed and left behind by glaciers years ago. The dunes themselves are…
Terri Greening 