White Stuff New Mexico
When it comes to White Stuff I prefer the New Mexico version to Norway’s. For one thing you need to wear a lot less clothing. Seriously it’s nearly the end of the year and I thought a few highlights of 2016 might be in order. The white sands national monument has got to be one of the strangest places I have ever visited you can the impression in the middle of these huge dunes that somehow you have been transported to another planet. I took a lot of photographs that will emerge in time but here is one for now.
A bit of info about White Sands
The White Sands National Monument is located about 16 miles southwest of Alamogordo in western Otero County and northeastern Doña Ana County in the state of New Mexico, at an elevation of 4,235 feet . The area is in the mountain-ringed Tularosa Basin and comprises the southern part of a 275 square miles field of white sand dunes composed of gypsum crystals. It is the largest gypsum dune field in the world.
Gypsum is rarely found in the form of sand because it is water-soluble. Normally, rain would dissolve the gypsum and carry it to the sea. The Tularosa Basin is enclosed; meaning that it has no outlet to the sea and that rain that dissolves gypsum from the surrounding San Andres and Sacramento Mountains is trapped within the basin. Thus water either sinks into the ground or forms shallow pools, which subsequently dry out and leave gypsum in a crystalline form, called selenite, on the surface.
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White Stuff New Mexico
When it comes to White Stuff I prefer the New Mexico version to Norway’s. For one thing you need to wear a lot less clothing. Seriously it’s nearly the end of the year and I thought a few highlights of 2016 might be in order. The white sands national monument has got to be one of the strangest places I have ever visited you can the impression in the middle of these huge dunes that somehow you have been transported to another planet. I took a lot of photographs that will emerge in time but here is one for now.
A bit of info about White Sands
The White Sands National Monument is located about 16 miles southwest of Alamogordo in western Otero County and northeastern Doña Ana County in the state of New Mexico, at an elevation of 4,235 feet . The area is in the mountain-ringed Tularosa Basin and comprises the southern part of a 275 square miles field of white sand dunes composed of gypsum crystals. It is the largest gypsum dune field in the world.
Gypsum is rarely found in the form of sand because it is water-soluble. Normally, rain would dissolve the gypsum and carry it to the sea. The Tularosa Basin is enclosed; meaning that it has no outlet to the sea and that rain that dissolves gypsum from the surrounding San Andres and Sacramento Mountains is trapped within the basin. Thus water either sinks into the ground or forms shallow pools, which subsequently dry out and leave gypsum in a crystalline form, called selenite, on the surface.
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT AND FOR TAKING THE TIME TO WRITE A COMMENT IT’S MUCH APPRECIATED.
IF YOU WANT TO FOLLOW MY STREAM I SUGGEST YOU OUGHT TO READ MY PROFILE FIRST