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Ischigualasto-Rock Balls


Ischigualasto-Rock Balls
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Copyright: Gaston Ramos (scooby) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 126 W: 6 N: 36] (954)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2002-01-13
Categories: Nature
Camera: Nikon N65
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-09-18 6:54
Viewed: 708
Points: 6
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This place of Argentine has things that are amazing. In this case there is a part of the park, which has a heap eroded of rocks, that have form of ball.

http://www.ischigualasto.org

The Ischigualasto Formation contains Late Triassic (Carnian) deposits (230 million years before the present), with some of the oldest known dinosaur remains, which are the world's first with regards to quality, number and importance. It is the only place in the world where nearly all of the Triassic is represented in an undisturbed sequence of rock deposits. This allows for the study of the transition between dinosaurs and ancient mammals; research is ongoing.

The arid badlands around the formation are known as Valle de la Luna ("Valley of the Moon") due to their rugged, otherworldly appearance. In the Carnian this area was a volcanically active floodplain dominated by rivers and had a strongly seasonal rainfall. Petrified tree trunks of Protojuniperoxylon ischigualastianus more than 40 meters tall attest to a rich vegetation at that time. Fossil ferns and horsetails have also been found.

Rhyncosaurs and cynodonts are by far the predominant findings among the tetrapod fossils in the park. Dinosaurs comprise only 6% of the findings, but these include early samples of the two major lineages of dinosaurs (ornithischians and saurischians). The carnivorous archosaur Herrerasaurus is the most numerous of these dinosaur fossils. Another important putative dinosaur with primitive characteristics is Eoraptor lunensis, found in Ischigualasto in the early 1990s.
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love the composition gaston :)
very interesting round rocks
they look like macros shots of chocolate :P

Uh! que bueno. Parece realmente una cancha de bochas!. Me gustó mucho la foto.
Me encantó que esten enfocadas las de atrás, da una mayor sensación de profundidad!.

Saludos!

Mauro

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  • sebcz Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 172 W: 31 N: 60] (869)
  • [2006-10-15 9:10]

Amazing sight indeed. Too much noise in the picture, probably it was scanned. Good compo.
Regards,
Seb

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