In Florida, the “panhandle’s mature dunes” once held pre-Columbian pottery shards and extinct giant armadillo bones. Most were bulldozed for condos. In the Sahara, Libyan military maneuvers have churned up ancient mature dune fields, destroying OSL records that took 10,000 years to accumulate.
Neurologists have coined the term to describe the mildly meditative state we enter when near water. For the mature adult, this is a vital tool for stress management and cognitive health. sandy secrets mature