sand drift

Now I was drinking sugary tea with Zalabia Bedouins and squatting on a sand drift in Wadi Rum, the Valley of the Moon, less than twenty miles from the Saudi Arabian border.

He was taking an eye surgeon to operate on patients facing blindness when his car got stuck in a sand drift.

And as the sediment is dumped, plumes of silt and sand drift away, settling on other reefs and suffocating them.

“This here’s called the ‘Jeep Dance,’ ” Mr. Yazzie said, dropping a gear to fishtail through a sand drift, then popping into third to launch us, with a shriek — “Woo-weeee!” — over a ravine.

Robin Shapiro of Robin Shapiro Realty said the sand drift against her own home in the Rockaways was 3-feet-high the day after the hurricane.