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Garzweiler surface mine, an open-pit mine for mining lignite, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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The Snow pits are located in the Giant Mountains National Park, close to the border with Poland. Pits are 200 meters deep and below are two beautiful lakes. This magical place is beautiful at sunrise. The highest Giant Mountain peak - SNĚŽKA - 1602 m.n.m. is the highest Czech peak.
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Bornean Keeled Green Pit Viper, Tropidolaemus subannulatus
Diese Vipernart trifft man häufig in Borneo an. Sie ist sehr tiefenentspannt. Dennoch würde ich immer den Mindestabstand einhalten. Ihr Gift ist ein starkes Hämotoxin und ist potentiell tödlich für den Menschen.
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While at Silverstone for this years F1 Grand Prix Race, the RAF Red Arrows put on a display for the crowed. This shot was taken on their final fly by over the pit straight just before the start of the race.
Equipment:
. Canon EOS 5D Mark III
. Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L USM
Exposure:
. Hand-held
. 118mm @ f/7.1, ISO 400 & 1/1250 Second
A bit of the past in Bloomville, N.Y.: An 1800s railroad turntable pit. The Ulster & Delaware originally ended here, so the locomotives would be turned around for the trip back to Kingston.
Rixton Clay Pits is a former clay extraction site in Rixton, near Hollins Green, Warrington, England. Formerly farmland, boulder clay extraction started in the 1920s for brick making in the adjacent brickworks, and ceased in 1965 - since then it has been allowed to return to nature.
Gwenap Pit - some information.
A depression caused by mining subsidence was subsequently used as an open air preaching pit. It dates from the mid-eighteenth century. It is located in what was the greatest copper mining district of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and one of the most densely populated areas at the time.
Located just to the south of Redruth on the eastern slopes of Carn Marth, its fame is due largely to the preachings of John Wesley, who used the pit on 18 occasions from 1776-89. He greatly exaggerated its size (he put it at 200x300ft and 50ft deep) and it is possible that the same applies to his estimate that his largest audience was 32,000. In his memory the local people excavated the pit in 1806 into a regular oval 37m across and 8m deep. They added 13 rows of turf seats. A Whit-Monday service has been held there since 1807, and it has been used for other purposes, eg. Chartists met in 1839, and there was a theatre performance in 1951.
Other web pages with information
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Eyelash Pit Viper (Bothriechis schlegelii). For additional information on this species see: www.flickr.com/photos/dragonflyhunter/6833561754/in/set-7... La Selva Biological Field Station, Costa Rica.
A small pool of heavy oil sits in a ~ 3 foot by 1 foot hole on the south side of CA 58 just west of McKittrick in Kern County, Califonia. This natural seep is one of the many that make up an area known as The McKittrick Tar Pits. In some areas, one of the first clues that oil is present in the subsurface is the fact that it sometimes finds its way to the surface through faulting or porous rock. Places where oil, asphalt or tar naturally comes to the surface are called an oil / tar seep or brea. Sands that are saturated with heavy asphalt or tar are called tar sands. The tar pits here lie on the western flank of the Temblor Range where alluvium covers Holocene alluvial gravels, fluvial sandstone, and lacustrine shales. These in turn overlie the kerogen-rich Miocene Monterey Formation. Most of the kerogen represent the preserved bodies of microscopic organism such as diatoms that live in the upper few meters of the ocean. The Monterey has many diatom rich beds called diatomaceous shales. Heat and time changed the soft body parts into liquid hydrocarbon and associated gas. About the same time, movement of the San Andres and associated faults help form the Temblor Range. Faulting and cracking of the rocks formed pathways for the oil to migrate up out of the Monterey, Some of the oil became trapped beneath an impermeable cap of Monterey Formation that slid of the Mountains. Most of the tar seeps occur in place where erosion has removed the Monterey cap (deposited by the landslide) and allowed the porous sandstone beds to be exposed and leak the oil.
As with its famous cousin, the La Brea Tar Pits, to the south, McKittrick's oil seeps also trapped its fair share of animals. Paleontologic studies of these seeps began in the early 1900's. Both the University of California and the Kern County Museum excavated the site in the 1940s. As of 1968, paleontologists identified over 43 different mammals and 58 different bird species. Bison, saber-toothed cat, dire wolf, camel and elephant, as well as smaller animals have been identified. Some of these species are now extinct. Most of the animal remains date back to the Pliestocene (10000 to 40000 years ago).
The Tulumne Yokut were the first people known to exploit the tar. Spanish explorers noted that they used it as a glue, a waterproofing agent, and related uses. It was so useful they found other tribes willing to trade for it. Early European settlers found similar uses, In the early 1860's the Buena Vista Petroleum Company began digging the tar at the seeps. In some cases Mining techniques were employed. A worker would be lowered down into the mine, then would fill buckets with the asphalt, while someone at the surface would pull it up. It was incredibly dirty and hot, As a result many miners chose to work naked and be washed at the end of the day. The Job had it dangers too, The workers not only had to contend with the tar in the pits, but also the hot weather of the San Joaquin Valley and noxious fumes from the oil, tar and gas. In the end, the mines were not very economical. The first oil well, The Standard Oil No. 1, was drilled in 1899. The well discovered oil and McKittrick Field was born. It became a major oil producer and is still producing today,
Why aren’t all olives pitted?
Olives used to be my favorite food. I love how salty and bitter they are.
I’m a lazy eater. If it’s a lot of work, I’m not interested. So I don’t eat much lobster or crab. I avoid buffets. If it has a bone, no thank you. Pomegranates: never worth the work. Imagine my disappointment when I discover that the olives presented to me have pits. There just isn’t an easy or graceful way to eat an olive with a pit. Why aren’t all olives pitted?
Thankfully, the color olive never has pits.
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The old Bear Pit in Eastham woods. Back in 1897 Eastham woods had a small Victorian Zoo!
"Attractions included a zoo, with performing bears, lions, monkeys and antelope, an open air stage, tea rooms, bandstand, ballroom and boating lake. The bear pit is still there, along with the remains of three fountains, once part of the 19th century zoo."
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I'll admit the "stitching" isnt great on the planet pano but its definitely a unique angle!