Would you like to participate in an expedition aimed at examination of the Astrakhan region? Visual choice of an attractive spot carried out with the help of Google maps is followed by a car journey.
The Big Brother Barkan is the highest in the Astrakhan region, up to 20m.
The road to the barkan is rather rough and difficult to approach.
How do you like the gallows?
The artifical forms are reshaped by winds.
The Arabian toad-headed agama.
A person here has to drink 1 liter an hour.
Stuck in the sand.
The moon is not visible unlike a plenty of stars.
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Pretty amazing place. Looks a little like the sand dunes in colorado.
Great Sand Dunes National Park, Alamosa, Co.
Beautiful.
beautiful
Interestingly, deserts are the youngest geological features of Earth’s history. They have paralleled historically with the rise of Homo sapiens. Before us, there were no deserts.
I’d like to see the proof of that theory. In my understanding dessert are normal geographical events caused by the topography of the land. For instance, the adacama desert is formed by the upswell of the Andies and the fact that the prevailing winds loose all their moisture on the windward slope. That leaves a dessicating wind to carry away the moisture on the leeward slope forming a dessert. Also, what was there before the evolution of vegitation? Wouldn’t you surmise that at one point the entire planet was a desert of sorts?
Well, I’m just relating what I read, I’m not a scientist… Before vegetation, most paleontologists believe the earth was covered by vast seas and the land was barren but not arid. Through the eons most scientists believe the Earth was jungle-like or in a deep or semi-deep freeze. Deserts, with the characteristics of aridity and erg landscape, have been dated at just a few million years or less, roughly paralleling hominid development.