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From: Ken
Date: 22 Mar 2000 12:28:18
Message: <38D90314.E837832C@pacbell.net>
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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