Geology Picture of the Week, June 29-July 5, 2003

NASA Earth Observatory ^ | June 2003

[cogitator]

Click on this image to see the large version, which is very impressive!

[cogitator]

Sorry about missing last week; I'll try to do better. I didn't see much of interest "geologically" last week, and I didn't have time to search for anything unusual. As for this image, my only regret is that they didn't go a little further north into Venezuela, where there are the strange high-elevation plateaus that inspired Conan Doyle's "The Lost World", and one of which gives rise to Angel Falls, the highest waterfall in the world.

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[theDentist]

Those letters must be monster big for the space station to photograph them so clearly from that distance!

[cogitator]

Those letters must be monster big for the space station to photograph them so clearly from that distance!

And their persistence in the ocean, where the currents would be expected to break them up pretty rapidly, is also amazing.

Funny you should say that; I saw a minor news article that in Indiana, there's a National Historical Site where Studebaker planted trees that spelled out "Studebaker". Apparently as the trees are growing bigger, the letters are starting to get blurry, so they're talking about cutting down the trees.

Studebaker Proving Ground (old picture)

Washington Times short (go about halfway down