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The sedimentary rocks formed in the Upper Cretaceous that occur in the region of Torotoro, Bolivia, belong to the El Molino Formation, which can be divided into three members due to their distinct lithologic characteristics. The lower member consists of carbonate rocks, the intermediate member by siliciclastic and mixed rocks, and the upper, by carbonate rocks. These association of rocks occur as the upper strata of the Torotoro Syncline, a 45 km long and 9.5 km wide feature well preserved in the dynamic of Andean tectonic.
Source: Menegat R; et al
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Sastrugi
Sastrugi, or zastrugi, are features formed by erosion of snow by wind. They are found in polar regions, and in snowy, wind-swept areas of temperate regions, such as frozen lakes or mountain ridges. Sastrugi are distinguished by upwind-facing points, resembling anvils, which move downwind as the surface erodes. These points usually lie along ridges parallel to the prevailing wind; they are steep on the windward side and sloping to the leeward side. Smaller irregularities of this type are known as ripples (small, ~10 mm high) or wind ridges.
Large sastrugi are troublesome to skiers and snowboarders. Traveling on the irregular surface of sastrugi can be very tiring, and can risk breaking equipment—ripples and waves are often undercut and the surface is hard and unforgiving, with constant minor topographic changes between ridge and trough.
Etymology
The words sastrugi and zastrugi are Russian-language plurals; the singular is zastruga. The form sastruga started as the German-language transliteration of the Russian word заструга (plural: заструги).
A Latin-type analogical singular sastrugus is used in various writings on exploration of the South Pole, including Robert Falcon Scott's expedition's diaries and Ernest Shackleton's The Heart of the Antarctic.
Formation mechanism
White and black colors on sastrugi are not lights and shadows, they demonstrate difference in radioreflectivity of snow deposits on the windward and leeward sides of a sastruga.
Under the action of steady wind, free snow particles accumulate and drift like the sand grains in barchan dunes, and the resulting drifting snow shapes are also popularly referred to as barchans. Inuit of Canada call them kalutoqaniq. When winds slacken, the drifted formations consolidate via sublimation and recrystallization. Subsequent winds erode kalutoqaniq into the sculptured forms of sastrugi. Inuit call large sculpturings kaioqlaq and small ripples tumarinyiq. Further erosion may turn kaioqlaq back into drifting kalutoqaniq. An intermediate stage of erosion is mapsuk, an overhanging shape. On the windward side of a ridge, the base erodes faster than the top, producing a shape like an anvil tip pointing upwind.
On sea ice
Sastrugi are more likely to form on first-year sea ice than on multiyear ice. First-year ice is smoother than multiyear ice, which allows the wind to pass uniformly over the surface without topographic obstructions. Except during the melt season, snow is dry and light in climates cold enough for sea ice, allowing the snow to be easily blown and create sastrugi parallel to the wind direction. The locations of sastrugi are fixed by March in the northern hemisphere and may be linked to the formation of melt ponds. Melt ponds are more likely to form in the depressions between sastrugi on first-year ice.
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This was in a historical home in Lowell, MI. Several of the homes were open for visitors during the Fallasburg Village Celebration.
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Maya Bay liegt auf der Insel Phi Phi Ley und ist weltberühmt für ihren halbkreisförmigen Strand, der von bis zu 100 Meter hohen Kalksteinfelsen umgeben ist. Der Ort wurde durch den Film The Beach mit Leonardo DiCaprio weltbekannt und zieht seither Besucher aus aller Welt an. Nach einer mehrjährigen Schließung zum Schutz der Natur ist der Zugang mittlerweile streng reguliert, um das empfindliche Ökosystem zu bewahren.
Maya Bay is located on the island of Phi Phi Ley and is world-famous for its crescent-shaped beach surrounded by towering limestone cliffs up to 100 meters high. The bay gained global recognition as the filming location of The Beach starring Leonardo DiCaprio. After being closed for several years to protect its fragile ecosystem, access is now strictly regulated to ensure sustainable tourism.
Thank you for your visit!
Cómo se forman los azulejos
La edad geológica de Gran Canaria se estima en unos 14,6 millones de años mientras que los Azulejos de Veneguera tienen una edad aproximada de 13 millones de años. Los azulejos representan alteraciones hidrotermales que se producen cuando el agua subterránea procedente de la lluvia alcanza las raíces de un volcán activo.
Se trata de zonas que estuvieron próximas a fracturas o conductos por los que circulaban gases volcánicos y aguas termales en contacto con rocas calientes o intrusiones de magma. Estos contactos son los responsables de diversidad de minerales como son la allita, la clorita, la epidota y la caolinita que tiñen la montaña de colores azules, verdes y celestes.
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Link to Cincinnati Zoo..............
Also a new group to join for anyone who has Ohio Zoo pictures!
www.flickr.com/groups/ohio_zoos/
Also check out Zoos Around the World group!
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I may not be on flickr a lot because I'm a bit under the weather!
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Let me know please if this looks too bright! Someone made the comment that it did. Thanks!
Macropodus spechti Royal Blue -Royalblauer Makropode – eine Zuchtform vom Schwarzen Makropode aus Asien
Paar, oben Männchen
* Royal Blue Macropod – a cultivated form of Black Macropod from Asia
Pair, male above
Last night I was able to observe a beautiful sky from the office window, with beautifully formed clouds that moved quickly in the wind, backlit by the almost full moon ... so I quickly grabbed the telephoto lens and tripod ...
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Gestern Abend konnte ich einen wunderschönen Himmel vom Büro Fenster aus beobachten, mit toll geformten und sich schnell im Wind schnell bewegenden Wolken, von hinten beleuchtet durch den noch fast vollen Mond ... da habe ich mal schnell zum Teleobjektiv und zum Stativ gegriffen ...
Location: Moore
Loco: GBRf Shed 66749 (just about visible)
Train: 9.46am Clitheroe Castle Cement - Avonmouth loaded tanks (6V35)
Finish: So desaturated as to be almost monochrome
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12.55pm, 6th February 2019
Common in varied wooded and forested habitats, parks, gardens, farmland with hedges and scattered trees. Forms flocks in winter; often visits garden feeders. Handsome, brightly colored male is distinctive, with bluish cowl, pink face and breast, black-and-white wing pattern (colors muted in winter). Female much drabber but shares male pattern; especially note the complex wing pattern. Both sexes have white outer tail feathers, often striking in flight such as when flushed. (eBird)
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We encountered chaffinchs (another introduced species) over much of the country, but did not stop to photograph them too often since our focus was on native birds. This female, though, was in a parking area so I took advantage of the opportunity.
Victoria Domain Road, Marlborough, NZ. March 2024.
Roadrunner Birding Tours.
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Malé Žernoseky (CZ) 05-09-2014
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Cette place forme le cœur de la vieille ville de Francfort-sur-le-Main (Frankfurt am Main), Land de Hesse en Allemagne.
Le Römerberg (littéralement: le « mont des Romains ») occupe l'emplacement approximatif de la ville romaine, bâtie au cours du Ier siècle après Jésus-Christ. Ce qui explique son nom. Depuis le Moyen Âge, le Römerberg accueille de nombreuses foires, ainsi que le marché de Noël (Weihnachtsmarkt) durant les 4 semaines de l'Avent. Désormais, il est aussi un lieu de spectacles extérieurs.
On a ici une vue panoramique de l'ensemble de maisons à colombages appelé Ostzeile. Cet ensemble de maisons historiques ferme à l’est la place Römerberg. Sur la place, se dresse la Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen (fontaine de la Justice) datant de 1543 car elle est surmontée d'une statue de la Justice due à Philipp Uffenbach.
À l’est, en retrait, on distingue aussi la tour de la Kaiserdom St. Bartholomäus (en travaux) édifiée sur Domplatz entre le 13e et le 15e siècle sur l'emplacement d'une construction carolingienne. L'élection des empereurs (dès 1356), puis leur couronnement (à partir de 1562) eurent lieu dans cette église, ce qui lui valut l'appellation de cathédrale Saint-Barthélemy de Francfort.
À droite de la photo, on distingue par ailleurs la Nikolaikirche (13e siècle) qui limite au sud la place Römerberg.
Sur cette place, il y a aussi (pas visible sur cette photo) de nombreux immeubles des 14e au 18e siècle qui comprend à l'ouest, la maison Zum Römer, l'ancien hôtel de ville, dont la façade présente une horloge et est surmonté d’un clocheton, installé dans un bloc disparate de 3 maisons bourgeoises du Moyen Âge au pignon en escalier.
La présence de nombreux gratte-ciels a valu à Francfort-sur-le-Main le surnom de Mainhattan ou Chicago-sur-le-Main. Avec près d’un habitant sur trois n’ayant pas la nationalité allemande, Francfort est sans conteste la ville la plus internationale du pays. La ville de Goethe peut ainsi s’enorgueillir d’un brassage unique de cultures et de langues du monde. Capitale financière et commerciale de l’Allemagne, Francfort est aussi un important pôle scientifique et culturel, avec ses instituts de recherche, son université, son opéra, ses théâtres et un nombre sans cesse croissant de musées.
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A rainbow forms in showers of virga over the salt flats in Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, during our landscape and night photography workshop there a couple of weeks ago.
We woke before dawn to intermittent rains drops that morning, and we drove 40 miles toward the wall of black storm, counting on it to move or break up a bit. We stopped at a spot near, but not under it.
The entire view toward the rising sun was obscured with rain a short while earlier, then we had a small glowing window of sunrise light underneath, then we turned around to rainbows from the rising sun shooting over the clouds!
This image was taken just as the sun was reaching our position, you can see a trace of my shadow as the sun crested the clouds behind me.
Each rhododendron bloom is a gathered colony of small, near-identical flowers—delicate, deliberate, and designed to draw in early summer’s pollinators. Their symmetry has both function and grace.
I nostri pensieri danno forma a ciò che noi supponiamo sia la realtà
Isabel Allende
Lago di Garda, autoscatto, tramonto che si specchia sulle acque calmissime del lago.
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Golden hour photography uses the soft, warm, diffused light just after sunrise or before sunset, creating a magical, flattering glow with long shadows and rich red/gold tones due to the low sun angle filtering light through more atmosphere.
It's ideal for portraits and landscapes, adding depth and a dreamy quality.
Not quite the same in black and white.
Shooting in black and white during the golden hour
shifts focus from warm colours to light, shadow, texture, and mood, creating dramatic, high-contrast images with long shadows and ethereal light, emphasising form and emotion over hue, and often revealing timeless, classic compositions.
The river Tone. Taunton, Somerset, UK.
The sun meeting the horizon, evening mist forming in the golden glow.
Treelined riverbanks of the Mighty Fraser River
The long shadows of the late Autumn season.
Fraser Valley
British Columbia
Canada
The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for 1,375 kilometres (854 mi), into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of Vancouver. The river's annual discharge at its mouth is 112 cubic kilometres (27 cu mi) or 3,550 cubic metres per second (125,000 cu ft/s), and each year it discharges about 20 million tons of sediment into the ocean.
The river is named after Simon Fraser, who led an expedition in 1808 on behalf of the North West Company.
Stay healthy
Happy Clicks,
~Christie (happiest) by the River
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There are hundreds of these posts and all of them are decorated in some form or fashion. It was really impressive. There are tags on them but they just say, done by several groups of people. I'm not the sharpest knife in the draw but I already figured that out. Anyway, you find this place by taking Beach street. It dead ends at the pier.
" Volcan de type maar, le lac artificiel est niché pour partie dans un vaste cratère d’explosion dont on devine les bords. Possibilité d'en faire le tour à pied (1,5 km). Lac de pêche. Base nautique et baignade surveillée en juillet et août.
Le village de Saint Martial qui se reflète dans les eaux du lac forme un balcon en croissance perché au flanc Ouest de la dépression.
L’histoire du lac est relatée par Paul Camus (1927).
D’après les documents, c’est probablement entre 1688 et 1738 que s’ouvrit vers le Moulinou un exutoire naturel, qui provoqua la vidange du lac. Son emplacement fut alors occupé par un marais sur lequel la culture gagna peu à peu. En 1974 la construction d’un barrage au-dessus du Moulinou, conduisit à la création du lac artificiel actuel destiné à diversifier les potentialités touristiques du village.
Article : Ardèche Tourisme
Frost forms on objects that lose heat quickly, such as plants. If the temperature of the plant drops below zero, the water vapor that falls on those plants will transform into frost.
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Spindle tree, garden, Hengelo, The Netherlands
Autumn forms
Clockwise from top left
Roundspored Oysterling (Crepidotus cesatii) 11 November 2018
Trichia decipiens (a slime mould) 8 November 2018
Turkeytail (Trametes versicolor) 8 November 2018
Wrinkled Crust (Phlebia radiata) 16 November 2018
Cuttle Pool Nature Reserve, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, Temple Balsall
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Lake Bashkara was formed in the 1930s and 1940s due to the melting of the Bashkara glacier. In surveys of 1932-1933, the lake was not yet recorded, and in the late 1950s it already existed. The depth of the reservoir is 32 m. The height of Lake Bashkara above sea level is 2750 m.
Lake Bashkara is known for repeated cases of breakthrough. In 2017, heavy heavy rain triggered the overflow of Lake Bashkara. A block of ice broke off from a neighboring glacier and collapsed directly into the lake. About 1 million cubic meters of water escaped from the lake and, destroying everything in its path, swept along the bed of the Adylsu River. In the valley of the Adylsu River, 350-500 thousand cubic meters were involved in mudflows. m of solid material. 3 people died.
In the late 1980s. at the edge of the Bashkar glacier, a group of new breakthrough-hazardous lakes formed, which later merged into a single lake Lapa.
Озеро Башкара образовалось в 1930-1940-х годах вследствие таяния ледника Башкара. В исследованиях 1932-1933 г. озеро еще не зафиксировано, а в конце 1950-х оно уже существовало. Глубина водоёма — 32 м. Высота озера Башкара над уровнем моря составляет 2750 м.
Озеро Башкара известно неоднократными случаями прорыва. В 2017 году сильный проливной дождь спровоцировал переполнение озера Башкара. С соседнего ледника откололась глыба льда и рухнула прямо в озеро. Около 1 млн. кубометров воды вырвались из озера и, разрушая все на своем пути, пронеслись по руслу реки Адылсу. В долине реки Адылсу в селевой паводок было вовлечено 350–500 тыс. куб. м твердого материала. Погибли 3 человека.
В конце 1980-х гг. у края ледника Башкара образовалась группа новых прорывоопасных озёр, впоследствии соединившихся в единое озеро Лапа.
So many beautiful orchid varieties in Singapore's Botanic Gardens.
HD PENTAX-DA 55-300mm f4.5-6.3 PLM
Milano - 16/03/2019
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''...Fotografare è riconoscere nello stesso istante e in una frazione di secondo un evento e il rigoroso assetto delle forme percepite con lo sguardo che esprimono e significano tale evento. È porre sulla stessa linea di mira la mente, gli occhi e il cuore. È un modo di vivere...''
(Henri Cartier-Bresson)