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Britain
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Caption |
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| LA1000 |
Wavecut
platform in Jurassic Lower Lias, Robin Hoods Bay, North
Yorkshire. |
| LA1001 |
View
eastwards from the Lawley, Shropshire. Composed of ancient
Precambrian volcanic rocks the Lawley has to the east
the oldest Cambrian rocks in Britain, the Lower Comley
sandstones. These are greenish micaceous sandstones, the
green colour produced by the mineral glauconite which
is indicative of marine conditions..There
seems to have been a world wide marine transgression in
the early Cambrian, maybe with a sea-level rise as much
as 200-300 m. |
| LA1002 |
Burniston
cliffs, North Yorkshire. This is a famous locality for
dinosaur footprints and trackways, some of the largest
sauropod footprints in the world come from here. |
| LA1003 |
Rhaetic
Tea Green marls at Blue Anchor, Somerset.
At the base of the Jurassic in Britain there was a marine
transgression that changed the conditions from desert
to shallow water marine sediments. The Tea Green Marls
are full of shoreline features such as sun cracks, ripple
marks, even trace impressions of ice crystals. The pink
horizons are evaporite deposits, typically pink gypsum,
that formed under conditions similar to the Persian Gulf
today. |
| LA1004 |
Cliffs of Cretaceous Lower Greensand west coast of the
Isle of Wight. |
| LA1005 |
Cambrian
Hells Mouth Grits situated at the Lleyn penninsula North
Wales |
| LA1006 |
Cliffs
of Lower Lias at Stonebarrow Hill, Dorset. |
| LA1007 |
Black
Ven Marls at Stonebarrow, Dorset. |
| LA1008 |
Cliffs
at Stonebarrow looking eastwards towards Golden Cap. |
| LA1009 |
Hackney
estate from Landmark Heights. |
| LA1010 |
Cloud
formation North Yorkshire. |
Ecuador
| Image |
Caption |
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| LA2000 |
AIDS
poster, Coca, Ecuador. |
| LA2001 |
AIDS
poster, Coca, Ecuador. |
| LA2002 |
Guandera
forest reserve,near Ibarra, Ecuador. Upper Montane Cloud
forest characterised by the Guandera tree and Polylepis
forest. |
| LA2003 |
"Requiem
for a cloud forest". Land cleared for cattle pasture
on the slopes of Tungurahua volcano, Ecuador. |
| LA2004 |
Primary
forest fragment at the head of El Chaco valley, Ecuador.
Omere Wiki foundation intends to restore the habitat to
its former glory. Dr Morley Read and Sylvia Gordillo head
the project. |
| LA2005 |
Panacocha
Lagoon surrounded by rainforest, Sucumbios Province, Ecuador.
Panacocha is Quechua for Lake of the Pirhanas, but is
also known for huge Anacondas and endangered species such
as the Giant Anteater and Giant Armadillo. |
Mali
| Image |
Caption |
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| LA3000 |
Camels
at Tuareg water hole, near Tamanguillet, Mali. |
| LA3001 |
Camels
at Tuareg water hole, near Tamanguillet, Mali. |
| LA3002 |
Escarpment
near Intassit, sandstones overlying soft sediments including
paper shales, paleocene turtle locality. |
| LA3003 |
Palaeontologists
lifting a fossil turtle carapace after enclosing it in
plaster. Paleocene sediments outcropping near Intassit
Northern Mali. From left to right William Lindsay (McNambo),
Cyril Walker, Dr Don Smith. |
| LA3004 |
Mud
cracks Northern Mali. |
| LA3005 |
Acacia
tree provides shade against intense desert sun, Mali. |
Iran
| Image |
Caption |
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| LA4000 |
Desert
surface, Sarbaz River region, Baluchistan |
| LA4001 |
Wind
eroded pebbles and dreikanters, Sarbaz river, Baluchistan |
| LA4002 |
Tehran
skyline. |
| LA4003 |
Tehran
cityscape shows edge of city. |
| LA4004 |
Buildings
under construction in Tehran. |
| LA4005 |
under
construction |
Madagascar
| Image |
Caption |
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| LA5000 |
Weathered
granite outcrop with forest fragments protected by huge
boulders is home to undescribed species of cockroach.
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| LA5001 |
Termite
mounds in red tropical soil South West Madagascar. |
| LA5002 |
Ranomafana’s
protected montane rainforest has an area o 41,600 hectares,
and was established in 1991 to protect the newly discovered
Golden Bamboo Lemur.
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Namibia
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| LA6000 |
Dead
trees in saltpan at Deadvlei, Namibia
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| LA6001 |
Dead
trees in saltpan at Deadvlei, Namibia |
| LA6002 |
Dead
trees in saltpan at Deadvlei, Namibia |
| LA6003 |
Flash
flood in the Namib desert near Sossuvlei, Namibia |
| LA6004 |
Ripple
marks on sand dune Sossuvlei Namibia |
| LA6005 |
The
Red dunes at the Sossuvlei are among the highest in the
world with a relative height of about 375 metres above
the Tsauchab river. The red colour on the Sossuvlai dunes
is caused by iron oxide which covers the sand grains as
a thin coating.This 'rusting' of iron implies that these
sand grains must have been exposed to atmospheric conditions
since their formation. It is believed that these sands
blown by east winds originated from the continental interior
(Kalahari). |
| LA6006 |
Unusual
clouds Damaraland |
| LA6007 |
Peeling
bark tree Namibia |
| LA6008 |
Quiver
tree Aloe dichotoma Masson, family
Aloeaceae. This species is a conspicuous component of
the arid parts generally known as Namaqualand and Bushmanland |
| LA6009 |
Large
tree at Okaukeuejo waterhole providing shelter to Springbok
from the midday sun. |
| LA6010 |
Hoba
meteorite near Grootfontein is the largest intact meteorite
in the world, weighing 66 tons it plumetted to earth 80,000
years ago. It is a remnant of a nickel iron planetary
core, which dates back to the origins of our solar system. |
| LA6011 |
Etosha
Pan with distant dust devil |
| LA6012 |
Termite
mounds in red tropical soil |
| LA6013 |
Ancient
rock carvings at Twyfelfontein |
| LA6014 |
Giraffes
at waterhole Etosha |
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