Badlands guardian image archive#

Winds and heavy rains carve channels in the rocks relatively quickly. The effect of wind and water on these landscapes means that they are constantly changing. They were formed during the end of the last Ice Age when glacial meltwater created valleys and steeps slopes out of the sedimentary rock and clay soil. The Badlands are desolate terrain of gullies, chasms, sinkholes, and hills. The location of the geological wonder is very remote, in an area that has been traditionally the home of the Siska First Nation People, often known as the Blackfoot tribes. The Badlands’ Guardian is near Medicine Hat in the south-east of Alberta and not far from the border with the USA. It is listed as the seventh of the top ten Google Earth finds by Time magazine.

They altered the suggested 'Guardian of the Badlands' to become Badlands Guardian. Out of 50 names submitted, seven were suggested to the Cypress County Council.

In 2006 suitable names were canvassed by CBC Radio One program As It Happens. It has sparse vegetation and soft, clay soil. It receives little but intense showers of rain. The area covered by the Badlands Guardian is an arid land. The precise location of the Badlands Guardian on Google Earth is at the coordinates (50° 0'38.20'N, 110° 06' 48.32'W). The Guardian is regarded as one of Google Earth’s most remarkable finds. The feature was discovered in 2005 by Lynn Hickox during the Google Earth project when they used satellite imagery and reproduced them in 3-D which led to the identification of the natural world. Its age is estimated to be in the hundreds of years at a minimum. Although the image appears to be a convex feature, it is actually concave – that is, a valley, which is formed by erosion on a stratum of clay, and is an instance of the Hollow-Face illusion. The 'head' may have been created during a short period of fast erosion immediately following intense rainfall. The arid badlands are typified by infrequent but intense rain-showers, sparse vegetation and soft sediments.

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Badlands guardian image archive#

I have just added archive links to 2 external links on Badlands Guardian. Khan Tiger ( talk) 03:18, 21 September 2012 (UTC) Reply Google Earth Judging by the fact there are roads visible in the area, it's pretty certain that it's been 'Explored' previously. Perhaps 'Earth Appreciation' would be more fitting. 68.146.81.123 ( talk) 01:07, 22 April 2010 (UTC) Reply Nitpicking, but I'm not sure 'Earth Exploration' is the right term. The Sydney newspaper article references this directly. ᚹᚩᛞᛖᚾᚻᛖᛚᛗ ( talk) 21:00, 14 March 2009 (UTC) Reply Not only that, as I point out in my note below, this feature was discovered via Google Earth, as part of a new form of Earth exploration. This page is an important part of human knowledge, as it depicts an even better example of the very process of how star constellations came about (in the sense of us depicting something out of a natural feature).

Thanks - MC ( talk) 01:01, 29 December 2008 (UTC) Reply I wanna know WHO on earth wanted this page to be deleted? - Ƿōdenhelm ( talk) 01:27, 19 January 2009 (UTC) Reply Did it occur to you to read the deletion discussion before succumbing to your outrage? Tast圜akes ( talk) 23:33, 20 February 2009 (UTC) Reply I'm outraged at your outrage about the outrage. This article has 7 citations, 4 external links, a good picture, and it is interesting.