Nov25
Saturday Scavenger Photo Hunt – “Time”
The Samalayuca Sand Dunes are about 50 kilometers south of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The dunes are home to various marine fossils, petroglyphs, and pottery. To date there are 210 plant species, 250 species of fauna, and 54 species of birds, some of which are rare and native to Samalayuca.
Thousands of years ago during the Pleistocene glaciations, lakes made up a large part of the “basin and range†region and deposited sediments between the mountains. When the continental glaciers stopped retreating about 12,000 years ago (end of the Pleistocene era) and the climate became warmer, most of these lakes disappeared, though they did leave hundreds of depressions or closed basins where the small amounts of rainfall do not drain to the sea. The resulting sand (in time) formed the dunes. The Samalayuca Sand Dunes are literally an example of the “sands of time.”
This is really very gorgeous. The blue is out of this world!