Different scale, but eerily similar: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=36.538467,-112.510643&spn=0.122889,0.198784&t=h&z=13
Just West of Kaibab national Forest, Grand Canyon. Jostein 2010/1/3 ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com>: > > AlunFoto wrote: > >> Well done Chris! >> It's difficult to get those patterns right with the typical light >> brown sand. Magic light in this one. >> >> Jostein >> 2010/1/3 Chris Mitchell <chris.mitch...@which.net>: >> >>> >>> Water draining across the sand on the falling tide has made this >>> fractal-like pattern around a stone. >>> >>> http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/GuernseyChristmas09/slides/_IGP1629.html >>> >>> When we find the PDML physics professor, perhaps she or he will be able >>> to >>> tell us how it works... >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> > > That's a Geology question :-) Did you remove the stone? or did you find it > removed? > It looks like a depression, not a rock or shell ... It looks like you are > close to the water > and the tide was ebbing and you removed the stone or shell just before you > took the photo. > > 30 years ago I could have expounded on the process although fluviation was > never my strong suit. > > Nice shot :-) > > ann > > > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.