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Plants build dunes, and dune growth controls plant growth. Hence we can use the distribution and structure of dune plant indicators to reconstruct recent changes in sand deposition, erosion, and stabilization. This is illustrated by the alternate widening and contraction of foredunes around Lake Michigan during recent decades.
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Jerry S. Olson (1958) studied this question.
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