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I can spend hours and hours and hours on Google Earth.
An Imgur user who also happens to be a geologist with the username “geologistsmakethebedrock” spent a lot of time on the site and posted some of his most interesting finds.
Take a look, these are fascinating!
1. “A fort in Lille, France.”
Photo Credit: Google Earth
2. “This is a private island on the coast of Maine.”
Photo Credit: Google Earth
3. “It looks like an abstract painting. My first thought was a huge archeological excavation site. Turns out that was wrong. These pits are used in a very old fashioned salt extraction operation.”
Photo Credit: Google Earth
4. “A very sinuous river. This is a good illustration of how oxbow lakes form. In the middle of the image you can see where a meander loop is being actively cut off.”
Photo Credit: Google Earth
5. “A real live oasis!. Not all of these tracks are from cars. The smaller ones must be animal.”
Photo Credit: Google Earth
6. “Here is a perfect meteor crater. It has a very nice raised rim. I bet if you mapped out the lake bed you would see a central peak too.”
Photo Credit: Google Earth
7. “I couldn’t find anything about this strange place. It’s a huge, planned settlement near Namibe, Angola.”
Photo Credit: Google Earth
8. “The circular reflections of these waves are cool.”
Photo Credit: Google Earth
9. “This is Assamakka, Niger, a community that appears to be fighting a losing battle with the sands.”
Photo Credit: Google Earth
10. “I wanted to see if I could find a ship wreck. I figured a desert coast would preserve metal wrecks well. It didn’t take to long to find this one in NW South Africa. It looks like a modern ship, and sure enough it wasn’t there in 2003 (the oldest picture available).”
Photo Credit: Google Earth
11.”A river cutting a hole in the ice.”
Photo Credit: Google Earth
12. “This is the Lakeview neighborhood. One day after Hurricane Katrina.”
Photo Credit: Google Earth
13.”This is some sort of reservoir in Belgium. I’ve never seen an octagonal pond before. I wonder why they made it that way.”
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14.”A lake somewhere on the Tibetan Plateau in summer and winter.”
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15. “A volcano poking up out of the South Pacific. I’m not sure if this one is growing or eroding away.”
Photo Credit: Google Earth
Now I’m in the mood to see the world!
