In 2016, scientists concluded that such anomalies in the moving or living dune are caused by the burial of trees that eventually decay leaving a hollowed out shaft beneath unsteady ground, named a "dune decomposition chimney."
In 2016, scientists identified that anomalies in moving or living dunes are caused by the decay of buried trees, resulting in a hollowed-out shaft beneath unsteady ground, termed a "dune decomposition chimney."