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Lake Geneva (Lake Leman) is located in the tectonic depression between Alps and Jura in terytorium France and Switzerland. It is the largest lake in the Alps and Western Europe.
Its area is 581.4 km²; maximum depth 308.99 m and maximum length 72.3 km.
Several hundred rivers and rivers flow into the lake, the largest of which is Rhône, and Rhone is also the only river flowing out of the lake.
On the northern shore of the lake there are vineyards, grouped in two wine regions: La Côte and Laveaux.
The cities of Geneva, Lausanne and Nyon, as well as numerous tourist centers, including Montreux - famous for the jazz festival, are located on the lake.
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Jezioro Genewskie (Jezioro Lemańskie) położone jest w obniżeniu tektonicznym między Alpami i Jurą na terenie Francji i Szwajcarii. Jest największym jeziorem w Alpach i Europie Zachodniej.
Jego powierzchnia wynosi 581,4 km²; głębokość maksymalna 308,99 m, a długość maksymalna 72,3 km.
Do jeziora wpływa kilkaset rzek i rzeczek, z których największą jest Rodan, Rodan jest również jedyną rzeką wypływającą z jeziora.
Na północnym brzegu jeziora znajdują się winnice, zgrupowane w dwa rejony winiarskie: La Côte i Laveaux.
Nad jeziorem leżą miasta Genewa, Lozanna i Nyon oraz liczne ośrodki turystyczne, w tym Montreux - słynące z festiwalu jazzowego.
Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water
Iceland lies upon two tectonic plates, the American and the Mid-Atlantic one and those plates are moving creating a rift zone where they are drifting apart from each other. The position of that rift zone within Iceland has moved over the passage of millions of years. The tall mountains you see in the background are Vatnsdalsfjall (the Lake Valley Mountain) located in Northwest Iceland where once that rift zone was located about 7 million years ago. The tall mountains are geological features that were folded up through the rift zone while the small hills in front of them are not related to the old rift, but were formed in a huge rock slide down the sides of the mountains towering the valley. A very interesting and beautiful place to visit. (thanks for the information goes to Daníel Freyr Jónsson)
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Iceland lies upon two tectonic plates, the American and the Mid-Atlantic one and those plates are moving creating a rift zone where they are drifting apart from each other. The position of that rift zone within Iceland has moved over the passage of millions of years. The mountain you see is Vatnsdalsfjall (the Lake Valley Mountain) located in Northwest Iceland where once that rift zone was located about 7 million years ago. The tall mountains you see are geological features that were folded up through the rift zone while the small hills in Vatnsdalur are not related to a old rift, but were formed in a huge rockslide down the sides of the mountains towering the valley. A very interesting and beautiful place to visit. (thanks for the information goes to Daníel Freyr Jónsson)
Happy Fence Friday!
A walk between the North American and Eurasian Tectonic Plates in Iceland. It's also the northern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. This is part of the iconic rift valley on The Golden Circle. It's where Iceland's parliament (Althing) started meeting in 930. The light rain had broke just before I got there which was enough to keep the crowds down. Thingvellir (þhingvellir) National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. #Iceland #ThingvellirNationalPark
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This installation for the Vivid Festival, located in the Rocks district of Sydney, was made up of plastic PET bottles filled with tonic water. The tonic water reacts with ultraviolet rays to produce a blow glow. For more information see: www.vividsydney.com/event/light/tectonic
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Inle Lake is a shallow tectonic lake located in Nyaungshwe township, Taunggyi district, Shan state. Its surface area is 116 square kilo meters, and the altitude of its surface is 880m. It is the only Ramsar site in Myanmar
The population on the lakeside consists predominantly of Intha people, but other ethnic groups include Shan, Taungyo, Pa'o, Danu, Kayah, Danau and Bamar (Myanmarese). They speak Tibeto-Burman languages except for Shan who speaks a Tai-Kadai language.
They are mostly Theravada Buddhists.
The settlement in the photo is Nampan (Nang Pang) in the southern part of the lakeside close to the famous Ywama village. The temple is Alodaw Pauk Paya.
Many local houses are built on stilts in the water or the reclaimed land by the water.
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The Andes are a Mesozoic–Tertiary orogenic belt of mountains along the Pacific Ring of Fire, a zone of volcanic activity that encompasses the Pacific rim of the Americas as well as the Asia-Pacific region.
The Andes are the result of tectonic plate processes, caused by the subduction of oceanic crust beneath the South American Plate. It is the result of a convergent plate boundary between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate. The main cause of the rise of the Andes is the compression of the western rim of the South American Plate due to the subduction of the Nazca Plate and the Antarctic Plate.
To the east, the Andes range is bounded by several sedimentary basins, such as Orinoco, Amazon Basin, Madre de Dios and Gran Chaco, that separate the Andes from the ancient cratons in eastern South America. In the south, the Andes share a long boundary with the former Patagonia Terrane.
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Iceland lies upon two tectonic plates, the American and the Mid-Atlantic one and those plates are moving creating a rift zone where they are drifting apart from each other. The position of that rift zone within Iceland has moved over the passage of millions of years. The tall mountains you see in the background are Vatnsdalsfjall (the Lake Valley Mountain) located in Northwest Iceland where once that rift zone was located about 7 million years ago. The tall mountains are geological features that were folded up through the rift zone while the small hills in front of them are not related to a old rift, but were formed in a huge rockslide down the sides of the mountains towering the valley. A very interesting and beautiful place to visit. (thanks for the information goes to Daníel Freyr Jónsson)
Happy Fence Friday!
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Katendrecht, High ruise, Facade Katendrechts Hoofd (cut from B & T)
After the Rotterdam harbour activities were moved to the outer ring of the Rotterdam agglomeration in the 80s, the Katendrecht quarter is, at last, undergoing a massive redevelopment.
There are now terraced houses and apartment buildings and a school, on the southern edge (the Maashaven side) of Katendrecht, the place where once the Hanno freight terminal was.
Shown here is the facade of one of the highrises near the 2nd Katendrechts hoofd.
And tectonics is still meant in the architectural, not geological sense ;-)
This is number 303 of the Urban Frontiers album and 73 of Facades.
The Oxararfoss waterfall and Oxara river are more or less located on the plate boundary between the North American and the European tectonic plates. This is a remarkable place where you can literally walk between 2 continents.
Lake Geneva (Lake Leman) is located in the tectonic depression between Alps and Jura in terytorium France and Switzerland. It is the largest lake in the Alps and Western Europe.
Its area is 581.4 km²; maximum depth 308.99 m and maximum length 72.3 km.
Several hundred rivers and rivers flow into the lake, the largest of which is Rhône, and Rhone is also the only river flowing out of the lake.
On the northern shore of the lake there are vineyards, grouped in two wine regions: La Côte and Laveaux.
The cities of Geneva, Lausanne and Nyon, as well as numerous tourist centers, including Montreux - famous for the jazz festival, are located on the lake.
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Jezioro Genewskie (Jezioro Lemańskie) położone jest w obniżeniu tektonicznym między Alpami i Jurą na terenie Francji i Szwajcarii. Jest największym jeziorem w Alpach i Europie Zachodniej.
Jego powierzchnia wynosi 581,4 km²; głębokość maksymalna 308,99 m, a długość maksymalna 72,3 km.
Do jeziora wpływa kilkaset rzek i rzeczek, z których największą jest Rodan, Rodan jest również jedyną rzeką wypływającą z jeziora.
Na północnym brzegu jeziora znajdują się winnice, zgrupowane w dwa rejony winiarskie: La Côte i Laveaux.
Nad jeziorem leżą miasta Genewa, Lozanna i Nyon oraz liczne ośrodki turystyczne, w tym Montreux - słynące z festiwalu jazzowego.
Lake Geneva (Lake Leman) is located in the tectonic depression between Alps and Jura in terytorium France and Switzerland. It is the largest lake in the Alps and Western Europe.
Its area is 581.4 km²; maximum depth 308.99 m and maximum length 72.3 km.
Several hundred rivers and rivers flow into the lake, the largest of which is Rhône, and Rhone is also the only river flowing out of the lake.
On the northern shore of the lake there are vineyards, grouped in two wine regions: La Côte and Laveaux.
The cities of Geneva, Lausanne and Nyon, as well as numerous tourist centers, including Montreux - famous for the jazz festival, are located on the lake.
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Jezioro Genewskie (Jezioro Lemańskie) położone jest w obniżeniu tektonicznym między Alpami i Jurą na terenie Francji i Szwajcarii. Jest największym jeziorem w Alpach i Europie Zachodniej.
Jego powierzchnia wynosi 581,4 km²; głębokość maksymalna 308,99 m, a długość maksymalna 72,3 km.
Do jeziora wpływa kilkaset rzek i rzeczek, z których największą jest Rodan, Rodan jest również jedyną rzeką wypływającą z jeziora.
Na północnym brzegu jeziora znajdują się winnice, zgrupowane w dwa rejony winiarskie: La Côte i Laveaux.
Nad jeziorem leżą miasta Genewa, Lozanna i Nyon oraz liczne ośrodki turystyczne, w tym Montreux - słynące z festiwalu jazzowego.
The Earth's Mantle
1 year ago this May I visited Newfoundland for my first time. I wanted to do a series of another fascinating place in Newfoundland I've not shared before. Hope you enjoy!
Tablelands Newfoundland
One of only a few places on Earth you can see the Earth's Mantle above ground (Australia and Newfoundland ...) from what I've found. see below links if you are interested. 💛
explorersweb.com/natural-wonders-the-tablelands-gros-morne/
"The Tablelands plateau
The Tablelands is a plateau rising 700m above sea level. It began 500 million years ago during the formation of the Pangea supercontinent.
At the time, North America, Europe, and Africa joined together, and the ancient ocean, known as Iapetus, began to close. From 10km below the Iapetus ocean floor, the subduction of two tectonic plates pushed up pieces of the Earth’s crust and mantle. Scientists agree that the formation of the Tablelands proves that plate tectonics theory is accurate.
On the surface, pieces of the mantle form a desolate but colorful landscape. There are yellow, orange, red, and sometimes even green and blue rocks. These are mostly peridotite, a snakeskin-type rock called serpentinite, dunite, and pyroxenite. Tableland rocks are high in nickel, magnesium, chromite, iron, cobalt, olivine, clinopyroxene, and orthopyroxene. These are some of the oldest rocks on Earth."
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"The Canadian Space Agency has also studied the area to aid in the search for life beyond Earth. Scientists study how microscopic life forms can survive in the iron-rich Tablelands to better understand how they might survive on the extreme environment on Mars."
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The island nation of Iceland sits at the juncture where the 2 giant tectonic plates, the Eurasian plate and the North American plate, meet. This long exposure photograph shows a small waterfall that flows over the North American plate in the background, onto the Eurasian plate below in the foreground.
Although most of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is located underwater, portions of it extend above sea level, as shown here.
The section of the ridge that includes the island of Iceland is also known as the Reykjanes Ridge. The ridge has an average spreading rate of about 2.5 cm per year.
Reykjanesta is in the southwest corner of the Reykjanes peninsula,
It is a great place to see the unique rock formations. These formations are the results of volcanic eruptions. As hot lava reaches the ocean it rapidly cooled forming these uniquely shapes rocks.The boundaries between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates pass right under this area.
Oh, and tectonic plates. Standing here the Earths upheaval is oh so apparent. Out there, off to the right the tallest bump in the landscape is the stratovolcano Glacier Peak, about 130 miles to the north, it is rated as very high impending eruption, so is Baker off frame to the left. Same for Rainier and Saint Helens, Adams however is only rated as high and is expected to collapse rather than explode as the gasses within erode the dome.
On this day all is calm, slightly chilly in my t-shirt, light breeze, and for the first time in a long time the worlds worries disappeared for a while for me.
Thingvellir National Park in Iceland where the first parliament met in 930. This is where the Eurasian and North American Tectonic Plates meet. It is a divergent plate boundary. There's also a path where you can walk between them. #Iceland #ThinvellirNationalPark #TectonicPlates #DivergentBoundary
Juxtaposition of this wonderful lake, Iceland's largest, within Þingvellir rift valley. In the front of both images one can appreciate aspects of the rift valley where volcanic rock is being folded up through the gaps being opened by the drifting away of the two tectonic plates Iceland is located upon.
Since we can't travel in person, at least we still have Flickr Travel. Thought I might post something from Iceland again. This is from near Thingvellir where the North American and Eurasian Tectonic Plates meet. Totally fascinating to have the American plate on one side of the water and the Eurasian one on the other.
Due to tectonic activity, the whole peninsula was raised from the sea. This was taken near the tip of the Gramvousa Peninsula, on the eastern side. Its an amazing place to visit, and lots of ferry boats take you to Gramvousa.
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Þingvellir National Park walks you through the divergent boundary of the North American and European tectonic plates where the two are separating at a very slow rate ultimately widening the Atlantic Ocean and what millions of years ago formed the island of Iceland
The tourist spot advertised as the place were the tectonic plates are visible. There are many places in the island were they are visible too, but maybe they just needed something in the map.
Knockan Crag (Scottish Gaelic: Creag a' Chnocain, "crag of the small hill") lies within the North West Highlands Geopark in the Assynt region of Scotland 21 kilometres (13 mi) north of Ullapool. During the nineteenth century Knockan Crag became the subject of much debate when geologists noted that the Moine schists at the top of the crag appeared to be older than the Cambrian and Ordovician rocks such as Durness limestone lower down. Disagreements over the processes that could have caused this to occur were referred to at the time as the "Highlands Controversy". The argument was primarily between Roderick Murchison and Archibald Geikie on the one hand and James Nicol and Charles Lapworth on the other. Murchison and Geikie believed the sequence was wrong and that the Moine schists must be the younger rocks. The controversy was finally resolved by the work of Ben Peach and John Horne whose 1907 paper on the subject remains a classic text. Peach and Horne demonstrated that the situation resulted from the action of a thrust fault - this being the first to be discovered anywhere in the world. The older rocks had been moved some 70 kilometres to the west over the top of the younger rocks due to tectonic action.
The crag is designated as a national nature reserve (NNR) due to its geological features and is owned and managed by NatureScot. There is a car park and interpretation centre that explains the geology of the area and gives background to the Highlands Controversy, along with three waymarked trails that take visitors to points of interest across the site. The site also hosts artworks such as 'The Globe' by Joe Smith and 'Pipeworm’ by Susheila Jamieson that were commissioned to highlight the inspiration that the landscape has had on artists and poets.
We toured the Reykjanes Peninsula, the peninsula in the south-west of Iceland where the international airport is. On the far west is Brúin milli heimsálfa, a wooden footbridge that you can see in the back that crosses the continental divide between the North American & European tectonic plates.
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Ya lo decía antes: exteriormente, Santa Sofía no intenta seducir, impone. Su presencia es casi tectónica, hecha de piedra, historia y gravedad. Pero cuando cae la noche, algo cambia. El edificio que por la mañana parecía una fortaleza se disuelve bajo la luz dorada de los focos. Las sombras suavizan los contornos, la piedra se vuelve piel, y la cúpula —esa que desafiaba la lógica— se transforma en un sueño suspendido.
La fuente, con sus juegos de luz verde y azul, convierte el espacio en una escena casi irreal. La masa poderosa que contemplaba horas antes se vuelve ahora ligera, como si flotara entre reflejos. La noche no disminuye a Santa Sofía; la reinventa.
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As I said before, Hagia Sophia doesn’t try to seduce from the outside — it imposes. Its presence feels tectonic, made of stone, history, and gravity. But when night falls, something changes. The building that looked like a fortress in the morning dissolves under the golden glow of the spotlights. Shadows soften its contours, stone turns to skin, and the dome —that once defied logic— becomes a suspended dream.
The fountain, with its shifting green and blue lights, transforms the space into something almost unreal. The massive presence I saw in daylight now feels weightless, as if floating among reflections. Night doesn’t diminish Hagia Sophia — it reinvents her.
The beauty of the local tectonics never ceases to amaze me. Dakota Ridge Trail, Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks.
Tectonic Sea @2021 Moni, Cyprus
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Sunlight Canyon runs down into the Clarks Fork Canyon (“The Box”) as seen from this view atop the Sunlight Bridge on the Chief Joseph Highway in the Soshone National Forest, Wyoming. The canyon cuts through gray, Precambrian granites, gneisses, and schists that formed when older sedimentary and volcanic rocks were heated and recrystallized deep in the Earth at extremely high temperatures during the development of what became a microcontinent. These basement rocks form part of an ancient continental land mass of Archean age called the Wyoming craton. This microcontinent was assembled through the collision and accretion of smaller plates and terranes driven by plate tectonics during the middle Archean (3.2-2.65 billion years). The Wyoming craton remained an independent microcontinent for over 750 million years and is some the oldest continental crust in the Rocky Mountains.
As you emerge onto the hand-levelled platform atop the ridge, the sense of exposure after the climb is suddenly liberating. The High Place of Sacrifice (al-Madhbah in Arabic) is one of the highest easily accessible points in Petra, perched on cliffs that drop an almost sheer 170m to the Wadi Musa below. It’s just one of dozens of High Places perched on ridges and mountain-tops around Petra, all of which are of similar design and function. A platform about 15m long and 6m wide served as the venue for religious ceremonies, oriented towards an altar, set up on four steps, with a basin to one side and a socket into which may have slotted a stone representation of the god. Within the courtyard is a small dais, on which probably stood a table of (bloodless) offerings.
What exactly took place up here – probably in honour of Dushara – can only be guessed at, but there were almost certainly libations, smoking of frankincense and animal sacrifice. What is less sure is whether human sacrifice took place, although boys and girls were known to have been sacrificed to al-Uzza elsewhere: the second-century philosopher Porphyrius reports that a boy’s throat was cut annually at the Nabatean town of Dunat, 300km from Petra. At Hegra, a Nabatean city in the Arabian interior, an inscription states explicitly: “Abd-Wadd, priest of Wadd, and his son Salim… have consecrated the young man Salim to be immolated to Dhu Gabat. Their double happiness!” If such sacrifices took place in Petra, the High Place would surely have seen at least some of them.
It’s also been suggested that Nabatean religion incorporated ritual exposure of the dead, as practised among the Zoroastrians of Persia; if so, the High Place would also have been an obvious choice as an exposure platform. You can survey the vastness of Petra’s mountain terrain from here, and the tomb of Aaron atop Jabal Haroun is in clear sight in the distance.
The ridge extends a short distance north of the High Place, nosing out directly above the theatre, with the tombs of the Outer Siq minuscule below. From here, it’s easy to see that the city of Petra lay in a broad valley, about a kilometre wide and hemmed in to east and west by mountain barriers. North, the valley extends to Beidha, south to Sabra. It looks tempting to scramble down the front of the ridge, but there is no easily manageable path this way; it would be dangerous to try it.
A north looking view of the Þingvellir rift valley in Iceland from near the Lögberg flagpole inside the National Park. On the left side of the foreground is the slope Hallurinn. Almannagjá gorge is further left outside of the photo. These features mark the west side of the rift valley. In the center of the photo is the Óxará which exits the Almannagjá by cutting threw the Hallurinn slope. It then flows down a low between faults. Fissures filled with water can be found along the banks of the river. Further to the right cliffs along other faults/fissures across the river can be seen. The bounding fault on the east side of the rift valley, Hrafnagjá, lies near the Mountains and cannot be made out in this photo. The Volcanoes and Volcanic Mountains on the horizon left to right are Ármannsfell, Lágafell, Skjaldbreiður ( a large shield volcano), Tindaskagi, Hrafnabjörg.
Namtso was born in the Paleogene age, as a result of Himalayan tectonic plate movements. The lake lies at an elevation of 4,718 m (15,479 ft), and has a surface area of 1,920 km2 (740 sq mi). This salt lake is the largest lake in the Tibet Autonomous Region (U-Tsang). However, it is not the largest lake on the Tibet Plateau. That title belongs to Lake KokoNor (Qinghai Lake) (more than twice the size of Namtso); which lies more than 1,000 km (620 mi) to the north-east in Amdo.
Namtso has five uninhabited islands of reasonable size, in addition to one or two rocky outcrops. The islands have been used for spiritual retreat by pilgrims who walk over the lake's frozen surface at the end of winter, carrying their food with them. They spend the summer there, unable to return to shore again until the water freezes the following winter. This practice is no longer permitted by Chinese authorities.
The largest of the islands is in the northwest corner of the lake, and is about 2,100 m (6,900 ft) long and 800 m (2,600 ft) wide, rising to just over 100 m (330 ft) in the middle. At its closest point it is about 3.1 km (1.9 mi) from the shore.
volcanic rock piling up within the rift valley in Iceland's Thingvellir National Park, one of two rift valleys in the world, where the drift of tectonic plates plus their interaction with volcanic activities from within the rift graben can be observed and studied.
Cortina d'Ampezzo is a lovely town of the Dolomites in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. It is a popular winter resort known for its skiing trails, scenery, accommodation and shops. Cortina hosted the 1956 Winter Olympics and has been featured in a number of famous movies due to its beautiful setting in an alpine valley running along the Bolte River. The local economy runs on tourism, especially in the winter, when the population of the town typically grows from about 7,000 to 40,000!
In the background is the impressive Pomagagnon, of the Cristallo Group, reaching an elevation of 2,450 metres, 8,038 ft. The obvious tilting nature of this group of Dolomites here is fascinating from a geologic perspective, caused by many thousands of years of tectonic thrust and reverse fault movement.
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The waterfall, Öxarárfoss, in Þingvellir National Park, Iceland is located where the Öxará (river) flows over the Almannagjá (cliff). A small, clear blue pool sits at the base of the 13m (44ft) and 6m (20ft) wide waterfalls. As seen in the photo, visitors climb on the rocks of basalt around the pool.
The entire Þingvellir region is located in a rift valley created by the drifting apart of the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. The tectonic plates are drifting in opposite directions at the rate of 7 mm (0.276 in) annually. Almannagjá lies along the North American plate on the west side of the valley. It measures 7.7 km long and 64 m wide at its maximum. The gorge’s cliffs lie along a fault with a maximum throw of 30-40 m. Geologists believe the Þingvellir faults (fissures) to be the surface expressions of deeply rooted normal faults. The ravines like Almannagjá have walls composed of basalt, a volcanic rock that cooled from lava flows that erupted out of near by fissures about 2,000 years ago.
Þingvellir is where the first Icelandic parliament, Alþing, was founded in 930 AD. For many years Icelanders traveled from all over the country to meet at Þingvellir and pass laws, voice opinions, give trials, and even battle with each other. Öxarárfoss is part of the area’s rich history. Legend and geological evidence suggest thet the early Vikings divirted the Öxará in order to provide water to the meeting site, That diversion took the river over the cliff at Almannagjá creating Öxarárfoss.
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