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Geology Picture of the Week, July 1-7, 2007: Providence Canyon, Georgia
Danny Burk Photography ^
| Danny Burk
Posted on 07/05/2007 9:17:10 AM PDT by cogitator
I went back to an old reliable for this one, and the picture I found was somewhat amazing on background.
The amazing thing about this place is that it didn't exist 150 years ago! It is called "Georgia's Little Grand Canyon", and it formed due to drastic erosion caused by non-soil-conserving agricultural practices.
Supporting Links:
Providence Canyon State Park
Wikipedia entry
Providence Canyon
Photographs of Providence Canyon State Park by Bruce Gourley
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Education; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: agriculture; canyon; erosion; georgia
Landslide!
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posted on
07/05/2007 9:17:12 AM PDT
by
cogitator
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posted on
07/05/2007 9:17:56 AM PDT
by
cogitator
To: cogitator
Preposterous - it takes millions of years to make a canyon like that...
Nice pictures though! :-)
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posted on
07/05/2007 9:26:09 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the round in the chamber.)
To: cogitator
Looks like someone wasn’t using their carbon credits.
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posted on
07/05/2007 9:27:27 AM PDT
by
shekkian
To: cogitator
It is called "Georgia's Little Grand Canyon",
To my naive amateur eyes...it looks more like Bryce Canyon.
And as Mr. Bryce said about his namesake: "a h-ll of place to
lose cattle".
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posted on
07/05/2007 9:29:27 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: cogitator
This is something else....Was it created by mining for koalin? Looks kinda’ like that.
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posted on
07/05/2007 10:05:00 AM PDT
by
geezerwheezer
(get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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posted on
07/06/2007 11:07:42 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/06/2007 11:16:47 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: DaveLoneRanger
To: Carry_Okie
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posted on
07/07/2007 2:00:03 PM PDT
by
Avoiding_Sulla
(We have always been at war with global warming. Global cooling is our friend.)
To: SunkenCiv
Wowsers, I had no idea, and I only live here....road trip! :D
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posted on
07/07/2007 7:23:06 PM PDT
by
To Hell With Poverty
(For evil to win, it is only necessary for Jimmy Carter to be considered a role model.)
To: shekkian; cogitator; Aetius; Alamo-Girl; AndrewC; Asphalt; Aussie Dasher; AnalogReigns; ...
"
Looks like someone wasn’t using their carbon credits." Actually he was using his garden hose to dig for carbon to turn in for credit...
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posted on
07/08/2007 4:23:48 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
To: editor-surveyor
To: cogitator
wow!
nice.
what a surprise.
never been to georgia,
but now i wanna go.
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posted on
07/08/2007 9:08:44 PM PDT
by
ken21
(fred.)
To: DaveLoneRanger
Very sandy. We’ve camped there.
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posted on
07/09/2007 7:07:32 AM PDT
by
mikeus_maximus
(Islam is the poisonous soil that bears evil fruit.)
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