Posted on 12/31/2003 12:00:28 PM PST by cogitator
I missed last week due to the holidays, but I was planning an end-of-year multi-picture posting anyway. So off we go:
Waimea Canyon, Kauai: click the picture to go to the page from which it was acquired, to access the spectacular full-size Landsat image of most of the island of Kauai, and also the little-known, little-visited Niihau and the partly-submerged volcanic crater Lehua Island.
The Cracks of Doom? (Hawaii building goes on): click for larger image
When a jokulhlaup meets the sea:
And you thought it was a good scene in the "X Files" movie?
The 1996 Iceland jökulhlaup...
Great Fountain Geyser (Yellowstone) at sunrise or sunset:
Cumberland Falls (Kentucky) in winter:
Fault-finding (the Hayward Fault in the San Francisco Bay area):
And finally, the interplay of literature, cinema, and geology -- views of Mt. Sunday in New Zealand, with the Edoras set from the "Lord of the Rings" movie:
Mount Sunday raw:
Legolas gazed ahead, shading his eyes from the level shafts of the new-risen sun. 'I see a white stream that comes down from the snows,' he said. 'Where it issues from the shadow of the vale a green hill rises upon the east. A dike and mighty wall and throny fence encircle it. Within there rise the roofs of houses; and in the midst, set upon a green terrace , there stands aloft a great hall of Men. And it seems to my eyes that it is thatched with gold. The light of it shines far over the land.
Ok, so it's not exactly a dike, but the vulcanism in Return of the King more than makes up for it. All in all, Peter Jackson did a fine job with locations- though it is hard to go wrong with mountains like New Zealand's.
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