The Fox's Den

ragingbeard:

fort-frolic:

vondell-swain:

david-attenborough:

Only 1% of Antarctica is free of ice, and most of that bare rock is here. The Dry Valleys are more like the surface on Mars than is any other place on Earth.

Frozen Planet, To the Ends of the Earth

woah

holy fuck

seriously

This is so amazing looking, I’d love to go there someday. It really does look like pictures from the surface of Mars.

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hugginangryfeminist:

This is the “smoke ring” a strange phenomenon that happens in volcanoes and it has only been documented 3 times. Two from Mt. Etna in 1970 and 2000, and another from Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland, in May 2010.

too cool not to reblog. 

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lickypickysticky:

This up to 1000 years old snow has metamorphosed into highly pressurized glacier ice that contains almost no air bubbles. Thus it absorbs the visible light despite the scattered shortest blue fraction, giving it its distinct deep blue waved appearance. This cavity in the glacier ice formed as a result of a glacial mill, or moulin.

Rain and meltwater on the glacier surface is channelled into streams that enter the glacier at crevices. The waterfall melts a hole into the glacier while the ponded water drains towards lower elevations by forming long ice caves with an outlet at the terminus of the glacier. The fine grained sediments in the water along with wind blown sediments cause the frozen meltwater stream to appear in a muddy colour while the top of the cave exhibits the deep blue colour.

Due to the fast movement of the glacier of about 1 m per day over uneven terrain this ice cave cracked up at its end into a deep vertical crevice, called cerrac. This causes the indirect daylight to enter the ice cave from both ends resulting in homogeneous lighting of the ice tunnel.

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See also: the Tsingy in Madagascar.

instrumentalsftw:

resurrectedrule:

thejasminedragon:

avoiceasbigasthesea:

violetmemories:

The geological formations known as the Lena Pillars have fascinated travellers since the 17th century. About 140km upriver from Yakutsk, the rock of the cliffs alongside the river has been eroded away into delicate shapes of a reddish brown colour. The extremely steep columns are made of kimbery limestone with the surrounding softer rock being eroded over the millennium. Today the stone rocks look like amazing creatures and towers, pillars and columns, towering over 150 meters high. The Lena Pillars extend along the river for about 80km.

YOU GUYS

SOZIN’S COMET BATTLE IN REAL LYF.

omg

the geology nerd in me just 

brb researching the fuck out of this for the rest of the night 

^

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theroaringsilence:

Gallium || Ga

This element is so interesting to me. It has a melting temperature of about 85 degrees Fahrenheit, which is basically room temperature. If you hold this metal it will begin to melt in your hand.

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pseudo-tsuga:

jtotheizzoe:

Geological Layers Cake

There’s no way I could not reblog this.

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Cool science aside, this National Geographic illustration is a pretty neat cutaway of the structure of the Tsingy.

So, um, can someone do a fantasy story or something where one of the locations is like this? :)

(I guess the closest I’ve seen are the Blade’s Edge Mountains in WoW’s Outland.)