Monday, August 8, 2011

Geological Wonders - The Valley of the Moon (Argentina)

Geological Wonders - The Valley of the Moon (Argentina)


Ischigualasto, meaning "the place WHERE you put the moon" is a remote valley in Argentina.It is studded with geological Formations left by Wind Erosion, amazing standing stones andBoulders That are so rounded They look like enormous Marbles. The Valley's once-fertileground is now arid and contains so many plant and animal Fossils That paleontologists comefrom all over the world to study Them.

Erosion over the millennia unearths the Fossils as well as other geological Formations Such as a host of Almost spherical concretions. The wind, inexorable and patient, has pounded the local bedrock for an age. Revealed, The Boulders That mudstone - in its original wet form, helped to form look as if giants have been playing Marbles.
 

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