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Geology Picture of the Week, November 19-25, 2006: Mask Rock and Turkey Rock(s)
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Posted on 11/20/2006 1:14:02 PM PST by cogitator
Mining the Natural Arch and Bridge Society site for fun found this:
"Mask Rock is located in the Ouadi Archei region of Ennedi [Chad] about 39 kilometers SSE of Fada. The left opening has a span of 36 feet and a height of 57 feet. The right opening has a span of 27 feet and a height of 50 feet. Photo by Gunter Welz."
Just for the heck of it, Googling on "Turkey Rock" discovered this, apparently somewhere around Aspen (Independence Pass, wherever that is):
Another Web site, mostly written in Czechoslovakian, calls the images below Turkey Rock and Turkey Tail, and indicates that they're in the South Platte region of Colorado (apparently near Woodland Park and Elevenmile Canyon).
Turkey Rock
Turkey Tail
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Outdoors; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: arches; dunes; sand; sandstone
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To: Dark Skies
What a waste of planes eh?
...wishing they could give us each a B-52 w/crew, armed with "special" munitions, and full flight rights and fuel over the middle east.
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posted on
11/21/2006 9:21:45 AM PST
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lormand
(Weinerism is a mental disorder)
To: lormand
I just went to the Nazca Lines in Peru (14°43′S 75°08′W) saved and enhance the pic...another incredible find.
I've got to quit traveling and get back to work
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11/21/2006 9:32:59 AM PST
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Dark Skies
("He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that" ... John Stuart Mill)
To: cogitator
The most incredible arch in the world, IMO:
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posted on
11/21/2006 11:51:22 AM PST
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dirtboy
(Objects in tagline are closer than they appear)
To: dirtboy
I'm not getting there any time soon! Great picture. (Typical of NatGeo)
To: dirtboy
To: cogitator
Since NatGeo calls it Shipton's lost arch, I wanna know how you can lose something that big.
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posted on
11/21/2006 11:59:57 AM PST
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dirtboy
(Objects in tagline are closer than they appear)
To: dirtboy
I wanna know how you can lose something that big.It's easy if you didn't notice where you were when you first found it!
To: dirtboy
I read a book a couple of years ago called "The Arch of Kerguelen". The Kerguelen Island and archipelago is one of the last large, largely unexplored areas of the world. There author had learned of stories by explorers of a famous big sea arch in one of the island's far-flung regions. The book is about the author's attempt to find the arch and also a description of an very wild land and its discoverer (who had a tough life).
I recommend reading the book. But if you can't wait until the ending, go here and look at picture 47:
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