And this week's award for "weirdest geology" goes to...
One of the strangest landscape elements of the Alps are the so-called earth pyramids of South Tyrol. Especially during foggy conditions these pillars appear like from another world. I spent several hours on-location to capture the change of colors and light from dawn till noon.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/57179311/otherworld
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The rocks provide enough pressure to keep the dirt below stable? Or the entire area used to be covered in rocks and we just see the ones that happened to be on more stable dirt?
ReplyDeleteOh, my. I saw something like this when I used to live in Caribou, Maine.
ReplyDeleteWinters are prolonged and snowstorms are common. So the snowdrifts become tall. With all sorts of debris caught in the layers.
Come spring, it start to dissolve. But the bits of debris shield the lower layers of ice from descending water.
The end result looks much like the photo. Except instead of rocks on the top of the spires there are cigarette butts and dog doo-doo.