Valle de la Luna (Moonvalley)
by Sarah Weick, KIT, Germany
The erosion landscape 'Valle de la Luna' is located about 10 km SW of La Paz, Bolivia. It is composed of clay and sandstone, which are highly prone to erosion. Wind and rain shaped the moonlike valley over years and left shapes similar to stalagmites. In the Central Cordillera and the Sub-Andean Zone it is likely to find more of these erosion landscapes.
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- Field (2822)
- Geodynamics (363)
- Geomorphology (1347)
- Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (509)
- Tectonics and Structural Geology (569)
Location
- South America (318)
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (53)
- Exact location (-68.0949 W, -16.5678 S)
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6000 × 4000 px;
image/jpeg; 2.5 MB
Camera:
Nikon D5200
Taken on 14
November
2015
Submitted on 9 April 2016
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Credit
Sarah Weick (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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