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Chara Sands: Siberia's Ice Age Desert Below the Kodar Mountains

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Chara Sands: Siberia's Ice Age Desert Below the Kodar Mountains

In the Chara valley of Russia's Zabaykalsky Krai, a field of golden dunes rises straight out of the taiga, with the snow-streaked Kodar...

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