And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
The endless dunes. Must be the Empty Quarter. Or Namibia. What ancient civilization lie buried and forgotten under the shifting sands?
I wonder if it might be the result of a different mineral fraction in the sand causing it to be blown about differently from everything else. I see it is also concentrated in lower areas just to the right of the picture. Steve_in_Ottawa
It would be interesting to know what caused the patch of white sand.
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Bird poo.
DeleteI wonder if it might be the result of a different mineral fraction in the sand causing it to be blown about differently from everything else. I see it is also concentrated in lower areas just to the right of the picture. Steve_in_Ottawa
ReplyDeleteOne day, someone will invent a form of LiDAR that can penetrate that.
ReplyDeleteMindful of some areas of coastal Peru. A fine sand - like two-toned cocoa - is shifted by winds into ever changing natural patterns.
ReplyDeleteWhite sand...Carolina Bays. Sand around them is yellow. The theory is they had 2500º+ petroleum rain.
ReplyDeleteLibya?
ReplyDeleteLooks like deforestation. Followed by topsoil runoff. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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