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To: gleeaikin

We have been over this before, I thought it was settled...as the one who posted the original article, I feel guilty, the images had me hooked. However, upon reflection, there’s no way I can see the hand of man in any of this.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/77605/linear-dunes-of-the-caprivi-strip

Google Earth - February 1, 2012
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In far northeastern Namibia, there is a skinny stretch of land sandwiched between Angola, Botswana, and Zambia. The Caprivi Strip receives more than 600 millimeters (24 inches) of mean annual rainfall and experiences periodic floods, making it almost moist compared to the much drier parts of the country.

On February 1, 2012, the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this natural-color image of the Caprivi Strip just north of the Okavango River (visible in the large image). Here the land is striped, as if a giant had dragged a rake over the landscape. Those stripes are linear dunes, and some are more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) long. Their presence suggests much drier conditions in the past.

Dunes generally form from wind-blown sand over many years. One characteristic of linear dunes is that they tend to remain intact long after the dry conditions cease. And because they don’t migrate like marching dunes, linear dunes preserve dirt and rocks that geologists can later use to understand past conditions.

A study published in 2000 sampled dunes throughout the Caprivi region and found that they likely formed under arid conditions between roughly 60,000 and 20,000 years ago. A study in 2003 concluded that dune construction may have been especially pronounced between 36,000 and 28,000 years ago. After the dunes formed, conditions in the Caprivi Strip moistened enough for the dunes to support vegetation—woodlands on the dune ridges, and grasses and shrubs in the valleys between.

Although studies indicate that conditions in this region were drier when the dunes formed, the dune-building periods seem to have been punctuated by humid periods, as indicated by sediments found in nearby caves and ancient lake sediments. About 16,000 years ago, a humid period prompted the filling of Etosha Pan. Now a saltpan, Etosha withered partly due to drying climate, but also because of changes in river routes.

NASA Earth Observatory image created by Robert Simmon and Jesse Allen, using Advanced Land Imager data from the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Michon Scott.


67 posted on 02/13/2020 11:18:57 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks; Red Badger; All

I don’t know if you ever saw this particular article, but what the first picture shows looks pretty man made to me. Looking at the link you show, that area looks like it could have been dunes. However, if you look at the link below, and especially the first photo I am sticking with the man made hypothesis. What I really would like to see is some serious studies on the ground by someone who is willing to believe at least some of these could be man made. Also have you gone over the entire area on Google Earth both high and low viewing. I have moved along some of the channels for miles at a low altitude and see no indication that the area I was tracking had anything like sand dunes.

http://earthepochs.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-largest-man-made-system-on-earth.html


69 posted on 02/14/2020 10:30:02 PM PST by gleeaikin
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