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Sand dunes at Honeyman State Park in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area
 Sand dunes that have formed since the end of the Ice Age occupy approximately 140 of Oregon’s 310 miles of coast - more than in Washington or California.


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Graphic by Elizabeth L. Orr, Geology of Oregon,
available from Nature of the Northwest

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