Giant current ripples?
Giant current ripples (aka gravel dunes) in Kuray Basin, Altai Republic, Russia.
Purportedly formed during the catastrophic emptying of Pleistocene Lake Kuray due to the collapse of an ice dam.
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- Exact location (87.9232 E, 50.1845 N)
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Sony DSC-HX5V
Taken on 7
August
2010
Submitted on 4 February 2014
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Credit
Daniel Garcia-Castellanos (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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