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Hraunfossar (Borgarfjörður, western Iceland) is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt and lava-tube cave Víðgelmir is close by.
Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal complex organic molecules originating from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, strengthening the idea that this ocean world hosts conditions suitable for life. Research results show much larger, heavier molecules than ever before.
Powerful hydrothermal vents mix up material from the moon’s water-filled, porous core with water from the moon’s massive subsurface ocean – and it is released into space, in the form of water vapor and ice grains. A team led by Frank Postberg and Nozair Khawaja of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, continues to examine the makeup of the ejected ice and has recently identified fragments of large, complex organic molecules.
In this image, a dramatic plume sprays water ice and vapor from the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Cassini's fist hint of this plume came during the spacecraft's first close flyby of the icy moon on February 17, 2005.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
it's not a victimhood complex; it's a full acknowledgement & bearing responsibility of my complicity in allowing these things to happen. it comes from (what i believe to be) a pure understanding of radical acceptance ((this is probably corrupt)); i accept people as they are, & their imperfect nature. shit happens. & i have a bottomless well of forgiveness, much to my detriment. i will rationalize all kinds of amoral/ immoral behavior because i wouldn't want to be judged on MY many faults & shortcomings. i'm also a submissive person with weak ass boundaries, so if ur a babe, i'll let u have ur way with me, until concepts like "truth" or "respect" are rendered porous & essentially meaningless...endlessly open to reinterpretation.
does that make sense?
Caves are created in this soft and porous rocks giving the inhabitants extra storage space. La Vallée Troglodytique des Goupillières.
A long hike from the foot of the hill leads to Delicate Arch in Arches National Park, Utah. The free-standing arch is a widely recognized symbol of the state of Utah and one of the most famous geologic features in the world. The light opening beneath the arch is 46 feet high and 32 feet wide. The Rocky Mountains are in the distant background. The arch is formed by sandstone from the Entrada formation, once a massive desert full of shifting dunes whose fine-grained sand form a porous rock when packed together.
HDR processed in Lightroom and Aurora. Shot with a Sony A7rii and FE 70-200mm F4 G lens. f/11, 1/320 sec, 70mm, ISO 200.
For my first attempt at macro photography, I decided to shoot this simple, nondescript piece of limestone given to me approximately thirteen years ago. This rock is a piece of the Grange tunnel system used in World War I by Canadian soldiers, located at Vimy Ridge in northern France. I had the honour and privilege of receiving a personal tour of the Grange Tunnel system which, as a Canadian soldier, is hallowed ground. I can talk forever about this precious piece of porous rock but I think I've said enough.
Jutting out from the landscape, these large, round stones don’t appear to properly fit into the badlands. The secret lies in the large butte located nearby.
When mineral rich water seeps down through the porous layers that make up the badlands, it can deposit those minerals in spaces or gaps in the sediments. The minerals act as a kind of glue, holding these sediments together, often forming around a core. As more and more layers are deposited, the concretion builds outward like a pearl, before being exposed by erosion.
Moose Hair Pottery - Made by Colorado potter, Bonnie Antich
Bonnie collects moose hair left behind on fences and bedding areas on her property in northern CO. The moose hair is applied to the surface of the pots once they are removed from the kiln. The hair carbonizes into the surface producing the patterns seen in the photo. Due to the low firing temperatures, the pots are porous and will not hold liquid but are perfect for displays of dried or silk flowers (or other imaginative but dry uses). Pots can be cleaned with a damp cloth. (Size approx 3.5” wide by 4.5” tall) Donated by and shipping provided by Lynn and Terry Creekmore. Starting bid $25.
Swimmers sit under Turner Falls in Murray County near Davis, Oklahoma.
Mazeppa Thomas Turner discovered this waterfall near where he and his wife settled along Honey Creek in the Arbuckle Mountains in Oklahoma in 1868. The waterfall bears his name though it was known and probably used for swimming by the native people of the area long before Turner found it. Born in Virginia to Scottish parents, Turner migrated to Oklahoma where he married Laura Johnson, a Chickasaw. Together they built a successful farm and raised a family on the banks of Honey Creek in Murray County. Must have been nice to have a beautiful swimming hole and 77 foot high falls nearby. In 1919, the city of Davis created a park around the falls which makes it the oldest public park in Oklahoma. In 1925, the city bought 325 acres from the Turners to add to the Park. With the additional acreage the park grew to 1500 acres. The city operated the park until 1950, leased it out from 1950 to 1978, but since then has operated it as a public recreation area.
The park gives good insights in to the geology of the Arbuckle Mountains. There are 3 natural caves in the park plus outcrops of limestone, sandstone, conglomerate, shale and granite. Calcium carbonate, called tufa, forms the distinctive cone the falls cascades over. Tufa is a variety of travertine formed by carbonate minerals that precipitate out of usually ambient temperature water. Though considered by some as a type of travertine, some geologists, however, separate tufa and travertine because the later forms in hot, geothermally heated water and is generally less porous.
References:
Joe Sanchez, “Turner Falls,” The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=TU019.
Proxy Falls is a stunning waterfall located in the Three Sisters Wilderness of Oregon's Willamette National Forest. It's known for its unique double-tiered cascade and the way the water disappears into the porous lava beneath it. The 1.6-mile loop trail offers close-up views of both Upper and Lower Proxy Falls. The trail is generally considered easy and family-friendly, though it can be challenging to access the base of the falls due to rocks and debris
New findings have emerged about five tiny moons nestled in and near Saturn's rings. The closest-ever flybys by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal that the surfaces of these unusual moons are covered with material from the planet's rings — and from icy particles blasting out of Saturn's larger moon Enceladus. The work paints a picture of the competing processes shaping these mini-moons.
"The daring, close flybys of these odd little moons let us peer into how they interact with Saturn's rings," said Bonnie Buratti of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Buratti led a team of 35 co-authors that published their work in the journal Science on March 28. "We're seeing more evidence of how extremely active and dynamic the Saturn ring and moon system is."
The new research, from data gathered by six of Cassini's instruments before its mission ended in 2017, is a clear confirmation that dust and ice from the rings accretes onto the moons embedded within and near the rings.
Scientists also found the moon surfaces to be highly porous, further confirming that they were formed in multiple stages as ring material settled onto denser cores that might be remnants of a larger object that broke apart. The porosity also helps explain their shape: Rather than being spherical, they are blobby and ravioli-like, with material stuck around their equators.
This graphic shows the ring moons inspected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in super-close flybys. The rings and moons depicted are not to scale.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This labyrinth-like system of troughs and plateaus was imaged by ESA’s Mars Express on 21 June 2016.
It shows part of a region known as Adamas Labyrinthus, which is found in Utopia Planitia in the northern lowlands of Mars. Here, the randomly shaped blocks vary in size from 5–20 km across and are separated by cross-cutting troughs with widths of up to 2 km.
The pattern is similar to that observed in some offshore locations on Earth, supporting an idea that the scene here results from the deposition of fine-grained sediments in an ocean.
The formation of such polygons with surrounding troughs has been attributed to a number of varied processes, including collapse under gravity, the expulsion of fluid from the porous sediments as they are being compacted, low friction between the sediments resulting in mass wasting, and local tectonic activity extending the blocks apart. The underlying topography of the surface below may also play a role.
One idea for the scene shown here on Mars is that sediment slurries were deposited during catastrophic flooding on an ice-rich surface, and contracted into the polygons as the sediments were compacted and expelled their fluids.
Later, tectonic activity and the gradual sublimation of buried ices could have caused gradual widening and deepening of the troughs between the giant polygons.
Icy material certainly played a role in this region’s appearance at some point: the larger impact craters show characteristic “pancake” debris blankets, which indicate heating and melting of a subsurface ice layer at the time of the impact.
In addition, some of the troughs show dark deposits, which may be ash layers being revealed from below a cover of dust-covered ice as Sun-facing slopes are gently heated.
The ground resolution of this image is about 15 m per pixel and the images are centered at 39ºN / 101ºE. For more images and details of this region, see the associated image release by the DLR German Aerospace Agency and by Freie Universität Berlin on 8 September.
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
I look forward to new meetings!
Galls formed by larvae of wasps, aphids and gall wasps on oak leaves, are porous "ink nuts," received this name because in the old days of them produced ink for writing. These ink nuts are used for tanning leather and producing medicinal (astringent) agents.
The East Mebon (Khmer: ប្រាសាទមេបុណ្យខាងកើត) is a 10th Century temple at Angkor, Cambodia. Built during the reign of King Rajendravarman, it stands on what was an artificial island at the center of the now dry East Barayreservoir.
The East Mebon was dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva and honors the parents of the king. Its location reflects Khmer architects’ concern with orientation and cardinal directions. The temple was built on a north–south axis with Rajendravarman’s state temple, Pre Rup, located about 1,200 meters to the south just outside the baray. The East Mebon also lies on an east–west axis with the palace temple Phimeanakas, another creation of Rajendravarman’s reign, located about 6,800 meters due west.
Built in the general style of Pre Rup, the East Mebon was dedicated in 953 AD. It has two enclosing walls and three tiers. It includes the full array of durable Khmer construction materials: sandstone, brick, laterite and stucco. At the top is a central tower on a square platform, surrounded by four smaller towers at the platform’s corners. The towers are of brick; holes that formerly anchored stucco are visible.
The sculpture at the East Mebon is varied and exceptional, including two-meter-high free-standing stone elephants at corners of the first and second tiers. Religious scenes include the god Indra atop his three-headed elephant Airavata, and Shiva on his mount, the sacred bull Nandi. Carving on lintels is particularly elegant.
Visitors looking out from the upper level today are left to imagine the vast expanses of water that formerly surrounded the temple. Four landing stages at the base give reminder that the temple was once reached by boat.
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A collage consisting of faux vintage decorative paper, pink colored beeswax and a miniature mirror is mounted onto a .75" thick woodboard. The text is written into beeswax with oil pastel. The back is signed and ready to hang with a small saw tooth hanger and bumper pads to create a "floating" effect on your wall.
Encaustic painting is an ancient painting technique consisting of melted beeswax, pigment and damar crystal resin. It can be applied to any porous, textured surface--wood being a popular choice. Each layer of wax is fused together with a heat source. If done properly, an encaustic painting can be of archival quality. When purchasing, please be sure to read about caring for your encaustic painting in the "Shop Policies" section.
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If I had the chance to start again
Then you would be the one I'd come and find
Like a poster of Berlin on my wall
Maybe there's a chance our walls might fall
(Athlete - Chances)
It was night when I took this shot. We got there just too late, and it was my last chance to shoot the falls in the autumn, with its amazing golden colors. Focus and composition were basically blind.
The name of this cascade is Hraunfossar. It is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 meters out of a lava field which flowed from a volcanic eruption under the glacier Langjökull.
As you can see, the water precipitates into the river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava.
Exif: ISO 400 ; f/4 ; 25 secs ; @27mm
A night shot
After shooting this train in Springfield I raced ahead south of the state line and across the Connecticut River to this signature location at MP 48.4 on Amtrak's ex New Haven Springfield Line main. The good sized Connecticut Southern freight is on one of the last remaining single track bottlenecks on the line that was mostly re-double tracked when the Hartford Line commuter service started up a couple years ago. CSO4 is a weekday Hartford to Springfield turn shuttling cars between CSO's hub and CSXT. An eclectic duo leads the train with OHCR 8530 (GE B39-8E blt. Dec. 1997 as an LMS lease unit for service on the BN) leading PW 2215 (a rather unique locomotive as a GE B23-7R that was originally built as a U23B in Jun. 1972 as Western Pacific 2263. It was heavily rebuilt in Mar. 1989 at Erie as a demonstrator unit for GE's new Super-7 rebuild line).
They are passing along the canal and passing the still thriving paper mill that can trace its origins back to the colonial era. Now a subsidiary of Finnish fiber products company Ahlstrom-Munksjo which shared this history of the plant on their web site. Mr. Seth Dexter opened Windsor Locks plant for business in 1767 in the British Colony of Connecticut. Back in the days, the name was Dexter Company and it run a saw and grist mill before expanding into the manufacture of specialty papers. At the time when Ahlstrom acquired Dexter Corporation and Windsor Locks in 2000 Dexter was the oldest company traded on the New York Stock Exchange where it was listed on the 200th anniversary in 1967.
Dexter was the inventor of the technology to make porous teabag paper which was introduced back in the 1930’s and is still produced at the plant today. The company also introduced the first catalogue cover paper. In the second half of the twentieth century the company grew internationally and concentrated on aerospace, automotive, electronics, food packaging and medical markets in the early 1990’s.
Windsor Locks, Connecticut
Friday May 15, 2021
~~~ Let us Pray for Nepal ~~~
The beautiful Yu Garden is 500 years old which is well maintained by the Chinese government. Entry fee RMB 40.
In the background you see "Shanghai Tower", the 2nd tallest building in the world in 2015.
Yu Garden or Yuyuan Garden (Chinese: t 豫園, s 豫园, p Yù Yuán, lit. Garden of Happiness) is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai, China. It abuts the Yuyuan Tourist Mart and is accessible from the Shanghai Metro's Line 10 Yuyuan Garden Station.
A centerpiece is the Currow ancient stone (玉玲珑, Yù Línglóng), a porous 3.3-m, 5-ton boulder. Rumours about its origin include the story that it was meant for the imperial palace in Beijing, but was salvaged after the boat sank off Shanghai.
"Vizcaya’s exuberant gardens are characterized by an abundance of architectural structures and details, elaborate fountains, and antique and commissioned sculptures. The use of sculptures that were already old and of soft and porous coral stone resulted, quite intentionally, in the gardens having a weathered appearance soon after their completion."
Along the Stone Barn Trail in Nachusa Grasslands, stands multiple sandstone buttes and cliffs, usually covered in moss and other plants. In this picture, a tall free-standing butte rises above the low underbrush of an oak savanna, mere feet from the trail. Nachusa sits on Karst terrane, or a landscape of porous rock defined by artesian wells, sinkholes, and natural springs. Millions of years ago, the region was up-heaved, exposing the shallow sandstone, and when the glaciers arrived, and subsequently melted, the porous sandstone was eroded, creating the interesting-shaped cliffs dotting the prairies.
Sailing from Lofoten to Tromso Norway. (approximate location)
See other images from a 2025 trip to Norway, Svalbard, and Iceland here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCiG8a.
flight from the oppression of suspended disbelief... this picture is sponsored by "Do What Inc." inventors of fine, completely unintelligible and pretentious captions, in conjunction with "The Porous Waterbed Conglomerate" and "The Mafia" manufacturers of exceedingly good mafs. Thank you and goodnight.
The tufa fall in Lathkill Dale. Tufa is a porous form of calcium carbonate which can precipitate from saturated solution, particularly in turbulent water flow such as waterfalls. The porous nature of the material helps promote plant growth so the falls are covered in thick vegetation.
Two dippers sit on top of the falls, more interested in each other than in me (it’s the start of their breeding season) and help justify the awful pun in the title of this post!
Yu Garden or Yuyuan Garden (Garden of Happiness) is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai at Huangpu Qu, Shanghai Shi. It abuts the Yuyuan Tourist Mart, the Huxinting Teahouse and the Yu Garden Bazaar. This garden is accessible from the Shanghai Metro's Line 10 Yuyuan Garden Station. A centerpiece is the Exquisite Jade Rock porous 3.3-m, 5-ton boulder. Rumours about its origin include the story that it was meant for the Huizong Emperor (Northern Song Dynasty from 1100-1126 AD) at the imperial palace in Beijing, but was salvaged from the Huangpu River after the boat carrying it had sunk. Yu Garden was first built in 1559 during the Ming Dynasty by Pan Yunduan as a comfort for his father, the minister Pan En, in his old age. Pan Yunduan began the project after failing one of the imperial exams, but his appointment as governor of Sichuan postponed construction for nearly twenty years until 1577. The garden was the largest and most prestigious of its era in Shanghai, but eventually its expense helped ruin the Pans. Today, Yu Garden occupies an area of 2 hectares, and is divided into six general areas laid out in the Suzhou style.
Chinese gardens are constructed to recreate and miniaturize larger natural landscapes. Traditionally, Chinese gardens blend unique, ornate buildings with natural elements. Just about every Chinese garden contains architecture, like a building or pavilion; decorative rocks and a rock garden; plants, trees and flowers; and water elements, like ponds. Most Chinese gardens are enclosed by a wall and some have winding paths. Chinese gardens aren’t just thrown together. Instead, they’re deliberately designed and visitors should walk through them in the particular order that the garden was laid out. A95_190
Hraunfossar is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 meters out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into Hvítá river, from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name comes from the Icelandic word for lava (hraun) and the word for waterfalls (fossar).
Hraunfossar (western Iceland) is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt.
The Palace of Justice of Monaco is a curved neo-Florentine building built in 1930 out of sea tuff, which is a grey and porous stone harvested from the sea off the coast of Italy so if you look closely at the façade you will see many pebbles and small mollusk shells embedded in its gray walls.
Burney Falls is fed by an underground spring and flows nearly constantly year-round. While some water flows over the top, a significant fraction simply flows through the porous rock and out of the face of the waterfall.
Theodore Roosevelt once declared Burney Falls the "eighth wonder of the world."
Coke is a solid carbonaceous material derived from destructive distillation of low-ash, low sulfur bituminous coal (black coal). Coke from coal is grey, hard and porous. Coke can be used as a fuel or as a reducing agent in blast furnaces used for smelting of iron ore.
Yu Garden or Yuyuan Garden (豫园 literaly Garden of Happiness) is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai at Huangpu District, Shanghai. It abuts the Yuyuan Tourist Mart, the Huxinting Teahouse and the Yu Garden Bazaar.
This garden is accessible from the Shanghai Metro's Line 10 and Line 14 Yuyuan Garden station.
A centerpiece is the Exquisite Jade Rock (玉玲珑) a porous 3.3-m, 5-ton boulder. Rumours about its origin include the story that it was meant for the Huizong Emperor (Northern Song Dynasty from 1100 to 1126 AD) the imperial garden in Bianjing, but was salvaged from the Huangpu River after the boat carrying it had sunk.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Garden
El Jardín Yu o Jardín Yuyuan (豫园 literalmente Jardín de la Felicidad) es un extenso jardín chino ubicado junto al Templo del Dios de la Ciudad en el noreste de la Ciudad Vieja de Shanghai en el distrito de Huangpu, Shanghai. Colinda con el Yuyuan Tourist Mart, la casa de té Huxinting y el Yu Garden Bazaar.
Se puede acceder a este jardín desde la estación Yuyuan Garden de las líneas 10 y 14 del metro de Shanghai.
Una pieza central es la Exquisita Roca de Jade (玉玲珑), una roca porosa de 3,3 m y 5 toneladas. Los rumores sobre su origen incluyen la historia de que estaba destinado al emperador Huizong (dinastía Song del Norte de 1100 a 1126 d. C.) el jardín imperial en Bianjing, pero que fue rescatado del río Huangpu después de que el barco que lo transportaba se hundiera.
The Namib desert is covered with regular patterns of bare circles whose origin is fiercely debated by researchers – but it now seems both leading explanations may be right.
One camp claims the empty patches, known as fairy circles, are created by termites under the soil that clear vegetation in the area around their nests. By making the soil porous, the argument goes, they establish permanent reservoirs of rainwater 50 centimetres below the surface, which sustains them and the surrounding ecosystem.
An alternative idea is that the circles are explained by plants competing for water. Plants help their nearest neighbours by creating shade and maintaining water on the soil’s surface, but hinder those further away by growing long roots that extract water from the soil.
Wat Kuhak Nokor, Kampong Thom, Cambodia
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Hraunfossar (western Iceland) is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt.
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A gem in the Icelandic highlands.
Hrauneyjafossar.
The beauty of this canyon appeared when the Sigalda Power plant was built. The dam brought about that a lagoon was created, Krókslón, resulting the water level in the originally wild glacier river to be dropped by many meters.
A lot of little beautiful waterfalls are being formed by water seeking its way through several porous lava layers around the lagoon. Really a fascinating view.
I was perhaps not quite lucky the day I took the picture because often the river has a beautiful turquoise colour instead of a grey brownish colour, possibly due to the high water level of the lagoon.
Littleworth Common is a publicly owned area of heathland, with birch and oak woodland which has grown up since it stopped being regularly grazed as farming practices have changed.
The common has a number of these still and silent ponds.
In the porous chalk landscape of the Chilterns, surface water is normally rare but here we're at the chalk's southeastern edge, and as at nearby Stoke Common the water percolating through it meets a layer of clay and appears here forming pools and areas of shallow surface water, squelshy with bog mosses.
The pond does look rather unappetizing, but I suspect because it is so full of life. Not a lot was moving on such a hot and muggy day except for early butterflies and day-moths, but I'd love to be here at dawn or dusk to see the wildlife that relies on it.
"Akin to a porous geologic formation shaped by the flow of wind and water, the building’s central, five-story atrium greets arriving visitors like an intriguing landscape, ready to be explored."
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Yu Garden or Yuyuan Garden (豫园 literaly Garden of Happiness) is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai at Huangpu District, Shanghai. It abuts the Yuyuan Tourist Mart, the Huxinting Teahouse and the Yu Garden Bazaar.
This garden is accessible from the Shanghai Metro's Line 10 and Line 14 Yuyuan Garden station.
A centerpiece is the Exquisite Jade Rock (玉玲珑) a porous 3.3-m, 5-ton boulder. Rumours about its origin include the story that it was meant for the Huizong Emperor (Northern Song Dynasty from 1100 to 1126 AD) the imperial garden in Bianjing, but was salvaged from the Huangpu River after the boat carrying it had sunk.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Garden
El Jardín Yu o Jardín Yuyuan (豫园 literalmente Jardín de la Felicidad) es un extenso jardín chino ubicado junto al Templo del Dios de la Ciudad en el noreste de la Ciudad Vieja de Shanghai en el distrito de Huangpu, Shanghai. Colinda con el Yuyuan Tourist Mart, la casa de té Huxinting y el Yu Garden Bazaar.
Se puede acceder a este jardín desde la estación Yuyuan Garden de las líneas 10 y 14 del metro de Shanghai.
Una pieza central es la Exquisita Roca de Jade (玉玲珑), una roca porosa de 3,3 m y 5 toneladas. Los rumores sobre su origen incluyen la historia de que estaba destinado al emperador Huizong (dinastía Song del Norte de 1100 a 1126 d. C.) el jardín imperial en Bianjing, pero que fue rescatado del río Huangpu después de que el barco que lo transportaba se hundiera.
Underside of a really beautiful find, though the top is quite boring, as seen a couple of shots on!
Thanks to Diggleken for the ID. Winter Polypore.
Hraunfossar (Borgarfjörður, western Iceland) is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt .
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Hraunfossar, located at Borgarfjörður, western Iceland, is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt.
Hraunfossar (western Iceland) is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt.