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09-11-12, 09:08 AM | #1 |
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Help about some rocks on Canary islands
So, my friend has been to canary islands a week ago and she took a photo of this peculiar formation.
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 |
09-11-12, 09:28 AM | #2 |
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Is it a caldera? A collapsed volcano.
Doesn't satisfactorily explain the big chunks missing though. Might help if your friend could say where, roughly, on the island it is.
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09-11-12, 09:37 AM | #3 |
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09-11-12, 09:39 AM | #4 |
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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.
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09-11-12, 09:41 AM | #5 |
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Already asked her, still waiting for the answer.
Knowing women in my parts she probibly didn't knew when she was there |
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Even just the island would give us a clue.
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09-11-12, 09:55 AM | #7 |
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Check this out.
http://www.nies.ch/world/tenerife/in...age.200208a.35 |
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09-11-12, 10:07 AM | #9 |
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Doesn't look quite as intruiging now.
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09-11-12, 10:10 AM | #10 |
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August was right, just a dirtmound with some interesting erosion.
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09-11-12, 11:31 PM | #11 |
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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?
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09-11-12, 11:39 PM | #13 |
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Some of the cuts almost look man-made?
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