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From: SamuelT 
Date: 22 Mar 2000 21:48:38
Message: <38D988BE.16D62BB1@aol.com>
In closing, perhaps my scene is just showing a larger rock outcropping. :)

Ken wrote:

> Chris Huff wrote:
>
> > I read one of the Dune books, and apparently, almost all of the land of
> > Arrakis was just sand with no rock structures. There was a huge "wall"
> > of rock, I think it was artificial(maybe that is what happened to the
> > rock formations, they were scavenged for construction material. I don't
> > remember very well, though).
>
> In Dune the movie they clearly showed isolated outcrops of rock scattered
> about the planet but yes everywhere else the planet was fine grained sand
> dunes.
>
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