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CultureRare ‘red sand sea’ appears on the edge of the Taklimakan Desert

Photographers have captured a striking red sand sea in Keping County, Xinjiang, on the northern edge of the Taklimakan Desert. The crimson dunes formed as sandstone from uplifted red-bed sedimentary rocks weathered into grains over millennia and accumulated across the Gobi.

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Rare ‘red sand sea’ appears on the edge of the Taklimakan Desert
Rare ‘red sand sea’ appears on the edge of the Taklimakan DesertCulture