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Monochrome flow-direction layer blended with polychrome rendering of a digital elevation model

The flow direction layer, generated from the digital elevation model, is very similar looking to hillshading. It can be used as input to generate a flow accumulation layer, which models surface water run-off coalescing into watercourses.

 

This image shows the value of playing around with different visual representations of elevation data. You can see the clusters of small cinder-cones near the left edge of the image, but also, there seem to be one or two partially formed craters immediately west of Lake Barrine, which is a maar (a lake formed after a phreatomagmatic explosion, i.e. an eruption caused by explosive generation of steam from groundwater coming into contact with hot magma).

 

The German word maar is etymologically related to the old English word mere, and to the Latin mare, and simply means lake.

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Uploaded on September 22, 2011
Taken on September 23, 2011