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The Blinding White Remains of a Dying Sea | Weird Places: White Sands

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This episode is sponsored by Endel, an app that creates personalized soundscapes to help you focus, relax and sleep.The first 100 people to sign up here get a one week free trial: https://app.adjust.com/b8wxub6?campai... The aptly named White Sands National Park is home to over 400 square kilometers of blindingly white sand. It's the culmination of a remarkable 250 million year process of sorting, transporting, and purifying gypsum to make a truly one-of-a-kind place. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow   ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Alisa Sherbow, Silas Emrys, Drew Hart. Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard,  …...more
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The Blinding White Remains of a Dying Sea | Weird Places: White Sands
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2021Jul 5
This episode is sponsored by Endel, an app that creates personalized soundscapes to help you focus, relax and sleep.The first 100 people to sign up here get a one week free trial: https://app.adjust.com/b8wxub6?campai... The aptly named White Sands National Park is home to over 400 square kilometers of blindingly white sand. It's the culmination of a remarkable 250 million year process of sorting, transporting, and purifying gypsum to make a truly one-of-a-kind place. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow   ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Alisa Sherbow, Silas Emrys, Drew Hart. Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Nazara, GrowingViolet, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Tumblr:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ---------- Sources: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://www.nps.gov/whsa/index.htm https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/12... https://www.nps.gov/whsa/learn/nature... http://npshistory.com/publications/wh... https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/cg... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://www.nps.gov/whsa/learn/news/p... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/201605... Images: https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/view.... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/co... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.nps.gov/whsa/learn/sand.htm https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/whi... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/whi... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/whi... https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail... https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/view.... https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/view.... https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/view.... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

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