The trees grow small and stunted, their living branches bleached bone-white by wind and dust.

BBC: A return to Middle-earth

The lowest logs were now buried in the earth, as if returning to their birthplace, and from these logs, from the very lowest part of the hut, were growing two new weak branches, which would one day turn into mighty oaks and eat with their roots the dust of this dwelling that had been exhausted by the wind, the rain, and the human race.

NEWYORKER: Among Animals and Plants

Impact craters surrounding the cap appear to be filled with ice and dust that was either deposited by wind or condensation, or perhaps further remains from an earlier larger ice cap.

BBC: By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse

He argued that the sea gets it iron from dust swept into the sea from the land, and that wind currents weren't carrying iron to HNLC areas.

CNN: Topical waters