Help about some rocks on Canary islands

[Betonov]

So, my friend has been to canary islands a week ago and she took a photo of this peculiar formation.

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/314130_4427213156550_534728127_n.jpg


I tried google but apart from: rocks on canary islands, I don't even know where to start. And there are a lot of rocks on those islands

[Herr-Berbunch]

Is it a caldera? A collapsed volcano. :hmmm:

Doesn't satisfactorily explain the big chunks missing though.

Might help if your friend could say where, roughly, on the island it is.

[Madox58]

Search canary islands geology
:up:

[August]

Is your friend sure it's a rock? It looks more like a big pile of dirt with several cuts created by erosion.

Also can we get a more specific location? I'd like to check it out in Google Earth.

[Betonov]

Already asked her, still waiting for the answer.
Knowing women in my parts she probibly didn't knew when she was there :/\\!!

[Herr-Berbunch]

Already asked her, still waiting for the answer.
Knowing women in my parts she probibly didn't knew when she was there :/\\!!


Even just the island would give us a clue. :)

[Madox58]

Check this out.
http://www.nies.ch/world/tenerife/index.en.php/image.200208a.35

[Betonov]

somewhere on the pass between Buenavista and Santiago del Teide

That's all I need, thanks privateer :up:

[Herr-Berbunch]

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/2213/canisland1.jpg

Doesn't look quite as intruiging now. :03:

[Betonov]

August was right, just a dirtmound with some interesting erosion. :hmmm:

Tenerife
Coordinates:

28°20'19.51"N
16°50'54.25"W


http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/3158002.jpg

[August]

Well I wouldn't say "just" a dirt mound. Those are some really striking erosion cuts which I don't see on any of the surrounding terrain. I wonder what caused such a local and radical event like that? Could they be man made?

[1480]

Well I wouldn't say "just" a dirt mound. Those are some really striking erosion cuts which I don't see on any of the surrounding terrain. I wonder what caused such a local and radical event like that? Could they be man made?


Strip mining?

[nikimcbee]

Some of the cuts almost look man-made?:hmm2:

[Rhodes]

Some of the cuts almost look man-made?:hmm2:

No:

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9021/aliensg.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/138/aliensg.jpg/)

[Rockstar]

... I wonder what caused such a local and radical event like that? Could they be man made?


RODAN!

http://g38.picoodle.com/ltd/img38/1/12/13/arthur75/f_uy88rm_deb4287.jpg

[Platapus]

For what animal were the canary islands named after?

[August]

For what animal were the canary islands named after?


I thought they were named after Admiral Canary hence the Subsim interest... :D

[Herr-Berbunch]

Woof woof. :smug:

Do I win a prize, I didn't even use Google or Wikipedia, just pure general knowledge. :D

[Sailor Steve]

Islas Canarius. H-B was first, but I also knew that. I'll be surprised if very many don't.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Or was it the first tin mine? Then they built a cannery? :hmm2:

[Pisces]

Alot of marker icons around it suggest it is a digged out vulcano. I guess it could be a very old (abandoned) quarry. I've seen modern ones all around the islands.

[Platapus]

Woof woof. :smug:




Correct! :up:

The tweet tweet was named after the woof woof.:D

[Sailor Steve]

Or was it the first tin mine? Then they built a cannery? :hmm2:
Maybe Steinbeck was hiding out there when he wrote Cannery Row.

[Penguin]

Maybe Steinbeck was hiding out there when he wrote Cannery Row.

And I am eternal thankful to the stutterers from there, for inventing this cool dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL9p20loMJ0 :rock: