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- Athe, on 08/18/2008, -2/+32Now entering Mordor
- Shaman760, on 08/18/2008, -1/+27Wow...what awesome shots. Thanks for sharing!
- Dumbledorito, on 08/19/2008, -2/+20No mirrors in the wasteland. Only despair and and an echoing voice whispering of things lost that cannot be found...
- inactive, on 08/19/2008, -1/+14http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/490/20060906020 ...
- ninjarabbits, on 08/19/2008, -1/+10It's because of all the sandtrout.
- oveedrx, on 08/19/2008, -1/+10404 Wastelands.. no place is safe
- ddawg05, on 08/19/2008, -0/+8http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=34.945614,-103. ...
The original pic is looking South. Looks to me like its just a drop off from a plateau where all the farms are on, not a barren wasteland... - ZMann, on 08/19/2008, -0/+8Here, check it out on Google Earth:
34°58'12.18"N
103°19'39.38"W - stargatesteve, on 08/19/2008, -0/+6It's the edge of a plateau
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -4/+10Nice pic
- Supergaxx, on 08/19/2008, -1/+6Anyone have the google Earth/Maps Co-Ordinates?
- inactive, on 08/19/2008, -1/+6useability hint - clicking a photo should give you a bigger version, or at the very least advance you to the next photo in the series, not bump you back up to the gallery index.
web dev snobbery aside, that's a pretty sweet (almost unreal) shot. - Supergaxx, on 08/19/2008, -0/+4awesome, thanks
- Rodalli, on 08/18/2008, -3/+7What's up with all the black, burnt edges between the developed and eroded land? The caption says it's eroding, but it looks more like a massive brush fire took place.
- bananasluggy, on 08/19/2008, -1/+4Looks like the Langoliers are on their way...nomnomnom....
Creepy. :( - carve, on 08/19/2008, -0/+3This is desert. Before irrigation, it ALL looked like the lower level of the step.
- djlethal, on 08/19/2008, -2/+5Need mirror already
- stargatesteve, on 08/19/2008, -0/+2current farmland - it's so dry out here that this is some of the greenest stuff we get to see.
- solidcube, on 08/19/2008, -1/+3What is interesting about this is the fractal character of it. You almost expect to see little mandelbrot islands out past the edge.
- Myztry, on 08/19/2008, -0/+2What's with all the circular crop fields (as opposed to crop circles)?
Is that for sprinkler irrigation or something? - Sefus, on 08/19/2008, -1/+3These fields seem to be slowly eroding away into barren wasteland.
You guys are missing the word "seem."
No one said is actually WAS eroding away into barren wasteland.
Sweet pic tho. - judicar, on 08/19/2008, -0/+2They're just there for the spice.
- Deekman, on 08/19/2008, -0/+2I Lold
- sjaxso, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1Ever since that movie, electricity pylons have creeped me out a bit.
- malikye187, on 08/19/2008, -1/+2God I can't wait to play Fallout 3!
- chromosomebody, on 08/19/2008, -1/+2it's called the caprock, its where one unbelievably flat spot meets another unbelievably flat spot I've heard claims it is the longest continuous escarpment in the U.S. This is actually a pretty unimpressive photo of it. Most parts of it have trees of some kind (at least what you can call a tree in eastern New Mexico). The coolest part is all the cretaceous era sea fossils that litter the area.
- murlox, on 08/19/2008, -0/+1The latest issue of National Geographic might explain what's happening in that picture. Erosion.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/soil/man ... - ruhk, on 08/19/2008, -0/+1I've ridden through a very similar area in the panhandle of Oklahoma. Rode my motorcycle from Dallas to Denver and back and passed through an area just like this. Though in the OK panhandle, the mesa top is covered with wind turbines.
Was definitely a wow moment. - Jon08CO, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1cool WoW reference...
- chromosomebody, on 08/19/2008, -1/+2Wow, This point on the map is remarkably close to my uncles ranch. If this is the right spot on the caprock it's an old picture. There's a wind farm that would be visible in the picture there now.
- GoatMonkey2112, on 08/19/2008, -0/+1Wastelands was EQ. I see what you mean though.
- jizzlefist, on 08/19/2008, -3/+4mirror?! anyone?
- molossus, on 08/19/2008, -1/+2Eroding into a barren wasteland? Oh, you mean all the undeveloped wilderness in the picture. I almost forgot how TOTALLY AWESOME the human race is.
- sembitch, on 08/19/2008, -0/+1lighten up goober, jeez!
- brainnovate, on 08/19/2008, -2/+3awesome pic!
- robfarrell, on 11/27/2008, -4/+5Wonder what this Barrens chat channel looks like...
- Sludgehammer, on 08/18/2008, -3/+3You can faintly see squares and a grid of roads in the barren area too, I wonder it's ex-farmland?
- chrizzler, on 08/19/2008, -1/+1Alas, you're wrong. Look in google maps at the terrain maps. But as you I also wondered if it was higher or lower. The elevation of the flat farmlands is 4800 meters, the Canyon below drops to 4200 meters. Thus 600 meters difference.
Amazing piece of landscape.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&client= ... - Myztry, on 08/19/2008, -1/+1It looks like a coastline where the water has receded.
Like in those disaster movies that currently slip my mind. Cue the tidal wave... - inactive, on 08/19/2008, -1/+1Ive actually seen that before flying from Virginia to California. Beautiful shot indeed. Id like to know the geologic processes that created such a dynamic feature.
- sembitch, on 08/19/2008, -0/+0wind, rain and sun? just a guess
- mark9117, on 08/23/2008, -0/+0Greetings from Portales, New Mexico (34.1 N, 103.3 W). Also known as Llano Estacado.
You are indeed looking at the Mescalero Escarpment. My understanding is that this phenomenon is a result of the fact that a few million years ago, this area was a barrier reef. It was not a coral reef -- coral did not exist at that time. The escarpment in this photo does in fact define the coastline of an ancient sea. Having lived in this god-forsaken area all my life, I've driven up and down this thing innumerable times. Lots of interesting geology around here.
http://www.carlsbad.caverns.national-park.com/
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/geol/llano.htm
Looks great from 30,000 feet. Not so much up close -- dirt, rocks, stunted mesquite and shinnery oak, rabbits, coyotes, rattlesnakes. You know -- desert. - sandraprinsloo1, on 02/17/2009, -0/+0You can truly see amazing things when traveling by air, thanks for posting this
http://cfdiran.com/air-travel/ - rocketlaw, on 08/19/2008, -1/+1It is interesting how the eye and the mind (combined with the angle of the photo) conspire to make it appear that the farmland at the top of the image is at a higher elevation than the irregular land at the bottom, when it appears from looking at Google Earth, that the opposite is actually true.
- inactive, on 08/19/2008, -1/+1NICE photographs!
- justinlillich, on 08/19/2008, -1/+0It's amazing and sad at the same time.
- frozensnake, on 08/19/2008, -2/+1ill come back when there is a mirror
- grimfandango, on 08/19/2008, -2/+1om no... oh wait.
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