University Department of Geography and Anthropology chair Patrick Hesp and United States Geological Survey scientist David Rubin recently published a controversial paper which examines a possible new mechanism for the development of large, linear sand dunes on Saturn’s largest moon.
The report suggests the giant linear sand dunes found on the Surface of Titan are formed from cohesive sediment and could have been formed by single-direction winds.
This contrasts earlier studies, which assumed sediment on the moon’s deserts were loose and attributed the dunes to multi-direction winds.
 
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