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Rustichelli

Rustichelli - Mar 15, 2006 1:28 pm - Voted 10/10

Very godd

album
cheers

Romuald Kosina

Romuald Kosina - Mar 15, 2006 4:52 pm - Voted 10/10

Exc...

Exceptional, beautiful album!!!!!!!

Corax

Corax - Mar 15, 2006 6:10 pm - Voted 10/10

Penitentes album

Great album!
As much as I hate dealing with penitentes I like watching them.

Ryle

Ryle - Mar 15, 2006 7:49 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: Penitentes album

Really? Well I removed that photo and a few other questionable shots from North America. But I am still left with this one, that looks like penitentes to me. By defininition, a penitente has to be from South America?

Corax

Corax - Mar 15, 2006 9:24 pm - Voted 10/10

You learn something every day

I thought a penitente, per definition, could only exist in South America. It seems like I was wrong. If I got the glaciology book I have here right, the word penitentes has been adopted as there was no good popular term for the phenomena. In scientific terms it's called selective snow ablation formations, according to the book. I can further read penitentes are very common in Los Andes and other South American sub ranges and can under certain conditions appear also in North America. A larger penitente like phenomena can also be found in the dry highlands of Asia. The latter seems to have some different characteristics (I don't understand the scientific words in the book), so those are not "real" penitentes.
I can also read the correct word for penitentes is nieve penitentes.

Interesting.
New knowledge for me ;-)

Sajama

Sajama - Mar 16, 2006 11:44 am - Voted 10/10

Original

You have a very original ideas for yours albums!

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