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27 Mar 2012
Sedimentology front cover image
The image on the front cover of the April 2012 issue of ‘Sedimentology’ (Volume 59, Number 3) depicts a wet (water-table-controlled) dune and wet interdune system at Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil. See the paper by Mountney in that issue. (Doc ID: 367)

The image on the front cover of the April 2012 issue of the journal ‘Sedimentology’ (Volume 59, Number 3) depicts a wet (water-table-controlled) dune and wet interdune system at Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil. This image relates to the following paper in the same issue of the journal: Mountney, N.P., 2012. A stratigraphic model to account for complexity in aeolian dune and interdune successions. Sedimentology, 59, 964-989. (Doc ID 367)

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Flooded interdune at Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil. The water-table level varies from a maximum following the rainy season in July thru September to a minimum where the interdunes are near-dry. Interdune pond is 30 m wide. Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.