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Wasted Fractals

OK, this does not relate to the fractal patterns of the sand being located in Colorado, where marijuana is legal, but rather to their origin from mass wasting, a type of erosion due to gravitational slumping of sediment on steep slopes. Moisture seeping into the sand from recent storms influences the rate at which the layers slump down under the orchestration of gravity and wind, producing the unusual patterning. Erosion, the magician...

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Uploaded on December 14, 2018
Taken on November 18, 2018