Drystone walls for soil conservation (2)
Antonio Jordán
University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
In the Mediterranean, soil erosion causes rock fragments to surface easily, so that stony soils are very common. The stones on the ground are collected and used for the construction fences (dry stone walls) and separating properties by farmers. In the photo, drystone walls are used to fight against soil erosion in an olive-cropped area in the Island of Mallorca, Spain. Lorena kindly works as scale.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Antonio Jordán (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
2.6 MB
Width
1664 px
Height
2496 px
Aspect
2:3
Brand
Canon
Model
EOS 350D
Exposure
18 mm f/5.6 1/80 s ISO 400
Taken
5 September 2013
Coordinates
39.7125, 2.6171
Tint
Light brownish gray
Submitted
14 October 2013
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