Bobdown
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Reged: 09/19/05
Posts: 22
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These are mounds of building rubble and unwanted truck loads of fill dumped in the desert
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Bobdown
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Reged: 09/19/05
Posts: 22
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Just wast stuff dumped in the desert
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Axeman89
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Reged: 11/21/06
Posts: 40
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The three mountains between the Faeroe Islands and the Outer Hebrides could be the remains of a hotspot, like the one is forming the Hawaiian Islands.
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KeithPickering
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Reged: 03/14/07
Posts: 31
Loc: Minnesota, USA
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Medium res (30m) imagery of parts of the Cay Sal bank are now available in the Bahamas small islands overlay package.
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Keith Pickering
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KeithPickering
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Reged: 03/14/07
Posts: 31
Loc: Minnesota, USA
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Parts of the Cay Sal bank and Grand Bahama Bank are now available in medium res (30m) as part of the Bahamas small islands overlay package.
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Keith Pickering
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rigup
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Reged: 04/21/07
Posts: 1
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the dots you are seeing on the landscape are from oil well reserve pits the oil and gas wells have been drilled but the pits with water and drilling mud have not yet been reclaimed. that is what they call the frenchie draw oilfield
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mobius0001
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Reged: 11/11/07
Posts: 2
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i do bleave those dots by "SD- More Dots" are just the biger clumps of sage brush
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Spysat
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Reged: 02/11/08
Posts: 21
Loc: United States
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Perhaps it is an old river course when that land was aboce water.
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growler63
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Reged: 02/03/08
Posts: 1
Loc: Powell, Wyoming
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I've lived in Wyoming my entire life, and can assure you these lighter colored 'dots' are indeed ant colonies. If you like, i could arrange an actuall photo sometime in the near future (as soon as today's snow melts off...lol). I agree its odd, but they do indeed end up showing in a grid pattern now and then. What strikes me as really odd is mans' difficulty in accepting that nature is capable of creating patterns from randomness. It's easier for me to visualize a grid pattern emerging from the ants in the area you have chosen to veiw simply because of the near constant winds in that area (the new queens are subject to the prevailing wind at the time of emergance). If you look again, you'll realize there is more randomness in the patterns than you first noticed. The variance in sizes you mentioned is subject to the size of the specific colonies. You'll find these things statewide, 'specially in the more barren, wide open spaces. Prairie dog colonies are much more messy and random than the overly organized ants, and you'll be able to just make out little trails between the colonies (if the resolution is high enough....)
Jesse
Powell, Wyoming
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Rich_Wooten
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Reged: 02/15/06
Posts: 6
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Because the Chaco area is in the semi-arid desert, although high altitude, the Navajos have to be very creative in collecting water. Throughout the area you will see these structures. The are usually created by a Cat. It is an artificially created depression to gather any runoff that occurs. It is not part of any ancient irrigation system.
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