The eiant Kermit Sand Dune in West Texas, northwest of Odessa, is an aeo-lian sand deposit dating back eons. It is the northernmost dune of a 200-mile-long sand deposit laid down by millennia of winds blowing sediment from the Pecos River to the west. The sandy terrain in the Texas desert had for years been used as a dune buggy park and recreational area. It wasn't until 2016 that the dune and the trend of sand deposits southward became the epicenter of the Permian Basin's oil and gas industry.
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