Above the shimmering waters of Salt River Project’s Granite Reef Diversion Dam, a scenic view ... and water are vacuumed up through a series of pipes into a nearby basin, where the sand and ...

These mega close-up pictures show you what the soft stuff on the beach is really like. Here the tip of a spiral shell has broken off and become a grain of sand. Water rubbing against it has helped ...

To avoid adding to that history, environmental activists and local government officials want Sand Land to close ... the city’s tap water so good. Metropolitan Diary: An up-and-down routine ...

The Curiosity Rover has sent back images of a sand dune measuring 13 feet in height ... back of the “Namib Dune” on December 17: This view of the downwind face of "Namib Dune" on Mars ...

Crews are funneling thousands of cubic yards of sand per day onto the beach, not only to protect the shoreline, but also the water supply ... brought a massive barge up from the South Bay ...

The most common component of sand is silicon dioxide in the form of quartz. The Earth's landmasses are made up of rocks and minerals ... insoluble in water and doesn't decompose easily from ...