Geology Picture of the Week, March 18-24, 2007: Ancient Beaches of Brazil (+ bonus)

NASA Earth Observatory ^ | 03/19/2007 | ISShttp://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/ISS014-E-10499_lrg.jpg

[cogitator]

Click to see larger.

I can't grab images from this site, but there a lots of pictures here of the Stromboli effusive eruption (rather than the normal pattern of summit explosions):

Stromboli's new lava flow in Feb./March 2007

[cogitator]

Y'know, when I looked at this picture again, it reminds me of something...

[cogitator]

ping -- Argh: messed up the link to the larger picture. Here it is:

Larger version

[Yo-Yo]

With "Beaches," "Brazil," and "Bonus" in the title, I had much higher expectations for this thread.

[mikethevike]

Ditto that

[martin_fierro]

Está aqui o bônus!

[cogitator]

I really screwed this one up; here's the link to the article:

Caravelas Strandplain, Bahia Province, Brazil

[cogitator]

bahiaswimwear.com

[Lil'freeper]

it reminds me of something...

Hrm. Many shapes are repeated throughout nature. ;) The beach ridges look almost like muscle (and connective) tissue.

[SF Republican]

Me too. I just can't get my hands on it. Its on the tip of my tounge!

[geezerwheezer]

All of these pictures are really interesting! :0 )

[Robert A Cook PE]

Like a huge trainyard: with hundreds of switches and turnoff's all at nearly equal angles and radii!

[Robert A Cook PE]

The beach ridges look almost like muscle (and connective) tissue.

You must have taken too much biology in your youth.

I see something useful like a train yard and rail switches, you see muscle tissue.

[patton]

I see the Lie E8 topology.

[Lil'freeper]

*blink* whaa?? Muscle's not useful?

Yeah, I took a few classes. :) The pic also evokes cross-bedded dune deposits like you see in Zion Nat'l Park.

[Robert A Cook PE]

I see the Lie E8 topology.

And a darn good thong you didn't want to see the Lie 2008 topology, or Mrs Clinton would have to take her pantsuit and top off .....

[patton]

An international team of 18 mathematicians, including two from MIT, has mapped one of the largest and most complicated structures in mathematics. If written out on paper, the calculation describing this structure, known as E8, would cover an area the size of Manhattan.

[patton]

A man died and went to Heaven. As he stood in front of the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, "What are all those clocks?"

St. Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie the hands on your clock move."

"Oh", said the man. "Whose clock is that?"

"That's Mother Teresa's", replied St. Peter. "The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie."

"Incredible", said the man. "And whose clock is that one?"

St. Peter responded, "That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Abraham told only two lies in his entire life."

"Where's Hilary's clock?" asked the man.

"Hilary's clock is in Jesus' office. He's using it as a ceiling fan."

[SunkenCiv]

It would have been a lot funnier if you'd given us something else again instead of straightening it out. ;')

[NicknamedBob]

"I see something useful like a train yard and rail switches, you see muscle tissue."

When I look really closely at the big picture, I see what looks very much like an airport. It's amazing how nature imitates the structures of man.

Or woman, for Cogitator and SFRepub.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

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