Now blown back towards the Dehesa it begins to form its own geology of pearlescent grains.
For succeeding epochs, through accumulation, pressure and heat, the long process of accretion will take place here.
And ultimately these petrological processes will create the transfiguration of sand back into rock.
There is no constant here but one, and that is the constancy of change itself.
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Photo: The great dune at Punta Paloma. Courtesy of the author.