The Great Sand Hills are a field of sand dunes in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada, and the second largest area of active dunes in the province after the Athabasca Sand Dunes. They lie within the roughly 1,900 square kilometer Great Sandhills Ecological Reserve and are built from finely ground rock flour deposited near the end of the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago. Frequent wind in the region continually reshapes the dunes. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Erosion via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
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- part of Great Sandhills Ecological Reserve
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The Great Sand Hills, also spelt Great Sandhills, are sand dunes in the south-west region of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
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The Great Sand Hills, also spelt Great Sandhills, are sand dunes in the south-west region of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
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