This image is the delta at the mouth of the Colorado River (photo credit: Visible Earth/NASA) - taken from Andy C. Revkin's blog on the New York Times, called Dot Earth. I'm posting the image because I liked it in an aesthetic sense; but of course, this blog here called ALfA is about more than just art, despite it's name. I recommend heading over to Mr. Revkin's blog and checking it out - even subscribe to it if you find it interesting (I have). I find he takes a very thorough and balanced approach to environmental matters.
6 comments:
very nice. like an abstract painting.
and don't forget, of course, that the actual name of this blog (check the URL) is still "A Label for Artists".
from Wiki:
"The Colorado River ('Aha Kwahwat in Mojave)[2] is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi (2,330 km) long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.
The natural course of the river flows into the Gulf of California, but the heavy use of the river as an irrigation source for the Imperial Valley has desiccated the lower course of the river in Mexico such that it no longer consistently reaches the sea."
The planet has never stopped melting since the thawing of the ice age. There were many years of it hosting a balance of ice and land for us. It seems to be surpassing what an acceptable level for us to frolic on. Eventually we will be sitting on a rock with puddles. Just a theory.
Also, let us in Manitoba never forget that we live in the bottom of a very slowly draining lakebed - and the waves are in solid and liquid form, and they move in year-long and decade-long cycles...
Good point! You have to think of this whole sitation as if it were happening in a petri dish. Or watch an ice cube melt. The first 70% of the process is pretty slow, but near the end, without a cold mass to draw from, it speeds up.
i love satellite photos. microscope photos are also cool...
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