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Winds of time
- Wind has no specific direction: it moves over time with the change of pressure and vacuum.
- Wind erosion transports soils from one area and deposits them elsewhere without bothering about national boundaries.
- The deposited soil has properties close to those of the soil it came from.
- In the UAE, wind from coastal land picks up white calcareous sand and deposits it nearby as white soil.
- Wind transports iron-rich red sand and deposits it elsewhere as red soil.
- Grey sand formed from igneous rock (gabbro) is deposited as grey soil.
- Dredged material from the sea produces cream-colored calcareous/seashell-rich soil.
- The UAE is a federation of seven emirates and no one color of sand is specific to each emirate but multicolored sands are continuously shifting across and outside the UAE.
