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Alien Towers - Mono Lake

Beautifully designed with layered platforms, lofts, towering pillars and the ever expanding penthouses of a massive towers built by an alien race on a distant planet perhaps envisioned by Roger Dean. But this is nothing more than an illusion created by the flow of a fresh water spring delivering sediment under a brine sea. The stunning and incredibly intricate structures now sit atop the surface of the desert where they will quickly dissolve back into the sand from which they formed. This is one of the most incredible natural formations I have ever come across while doing photography in the Eastern Sierra.

 

© Darvin Atkeson

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Uploaded on August 1, 2016
Taken on July 30, 2016