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White Sands National Park is home to the largest gypsum dune field and collection of Ice Age fossilized tracks. Here's what visitors can expect.
Feb. 5—RVT.com, an RV travel blog, has named White Sands National Park to its list of 8 Sensational Spring Break Destinations. Located in southern New Mexico in the Tularosa Basin, this gypsum ...
A national monument until 2019, White Sands National Park is home to the largest gypsum dune field in the world – gypsum being a soft sulfate mineral used in materials like plaster. The 275 ...
White Sands National Park is a national park of the United States located in New Mexico and completely surrounded by the White Sands Missile Range.The park covers 145,762 acres (227.8 sq mi; 589.9 km 2) in the Tularosa Basin, including the southern 41% of a 275 sq mi (710 km 2) field of white sand dunes composed of gypsum crystals.
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The further process of gypsum erosion abrades the fragile selenite, and other precipitated gypsum, into the pure-white sands covering most of the national park. [2] [3] Lake Lucero is located in a section of the National Park, the Zone of Cooperative Use, to which access is typically restricted for reasons of U.S. military security.