Islas Ildefonso

Are a group of islands in Chile. The islands belong to the Commune of Cabo de Hornos in Antártica Chilena Province of Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region. They are located at 55°44′S, 69°26′W, 96 kilometres west of Isla Hermite, part of Tierra del Fuego, and 93 km NNW of Diego Ramirez Islands, but only 27 km south of Isla Hoste or 23 km to rocks near Isla Hoste.
The islands consist of nine stacks, within two groups. They extend 6 km on a northwest-southeast axis.
The land area measures about 0.2 km². More than 50% of this comprises the large single southern stack, which is 970 m long and between 80 and 200 m wide.
The islands are steep and rocky, and covered in tussac grass.
They are inhabited by penguins: both Rockhopper Penguin and Magellanic Penguin are present. There is a large colony of Black-browed Albatross here also, with small number of Grey-headed Albatross. Imperial Shag is also a common breeding species.

source: wikipedia

"The Sacred Mosque"

The Grand Mosque in Mecca city.

Al-Masjid al Harām "The Sacred Mosque"), is the largest mosque in the world. Located in the city of Mecca, it surrounds the Kaaba, the place which Muslims turn towards while offering daily prayers and is considered to be the holiest place on Earth by Muslims. The mosque is also commonly known as the Haram or Haram Sharif.The current structure covers an area of 356,800 square meters including the outdoor and indoor praying spaces and can accommodate up to 4 million worshippers during the Hajj period

source: wikipedia

Hanalei Valley

The Hanalei River

ON the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi flows north from eastern slopes Mount Waialeale for 17 miles (27 kilometers) until entering the Pacific Ocean at Hanalei Bay as an estuary. With a long-term mean discharge of 216 cubic feet (6.12 cubic meters) per second,in terms of water flow it is the second-largest river in the state; although its watershed of 19.1 square miles is only sixth-largest on Kauaʻi, it encompasses areas of the highest recorded rainfall on the planet and plunges precipitously from its headwaters at 3500 feet above sea level.
The lower, flatter portion of the river flows by Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge and many taro farms (60% of Hawaii's taro is grown in this area). The Hanalei River provides habitat for a number of amphidromous species, including gobies (5 native varieties), two native species of crustacean, the hihiwai (an edible snail), and in its upper reaches, a threatened species of highly-adapted snail (Newcomb's snail, Erinna newcombi).
The Hanalei was designated an American Heritage River by US President Bill Clinton on July 30, 1998.

Arizona Canal

The Central Arizona

Project Aqueduct is a diversion canal in Arizona in the United States. The aqueduct diverts water from the Colorado River from Lake Havasu City into central and southern Arizona. The Central Arizona Project is a multipurpose water resource development and management project that was designed to provide water to nearly one million acres (4,000 km²) of Indian and non-Indian irrigated agricultural land areas as well as municipal water for several Arizona communities

credit : U.S. bureau of Reclamation

source: wikipedia

Mayon Volcano Eruption

Mayon Volcano

is the main landmark of Albay Province, Philippines. It is ten kilometres (6 mi) from the Gulf of Albay, in the municipalities of Legazpi City, Daraga, Camilig, Guinobatan, Ligao City, Tabac City, Malilipot, and Santo Domingo (clockwise from Legazpi). It rises 2462 m (8,077 ft) above the gulf.Mayon Volcano is the Philippines' most active volcano and is considered to be the world's most perfectly formed volcano for its symmetrical cone. It is a basaltic-andesitic volcano. The upper slopes of the volcano are steep averaging 35-40 degrees and are capped by a small summit crater. Its sides are layers of lava and other volcanic material.
source: wikipedia

Taal Volcano (Arial View)

IS an active volcano on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It is situated between the towns of Talisay and San Nicolas in Batangas. It consists of an island in Lake Taal, which is situated within a caldera formed by an earlier, very powerful eruption. It is located about 50 km from the capital, Manila. It also has the distinction of being home to the "Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island". This is referring to Vulcan point, an island in crater lake.
The volcano has erupted violently several times, causing loss of life in the populated areas surrounding the lake, the current death toll standing at around 5,000 - 6,000. Because of its proximity to populated areas and eruptive history, the volcano has been designated a Decade Volcano worthy of close study to prevent future natural disasters. It was thought to be named as "a volcano inside a volcano" because many believed that the lake that circles the volcano was once a crater or mouth of a volcano.

source: wikipedia

Volcanic Eruption

Mount Pinatubo

IS an active stratovolcano located on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, at the intersection of the borders of the provinces of Zambales, Tarlac and Pampanga. Ancestral Pinatubo was a stratovolcano made of andesite and dacite. Before 1991, the mountain was inconspicuous and heavily eroded. It was covered in dense forest which supported a population of several thousand indigenous people, the Aeta, who had fled to the mountains from the lowlands when the Spanish conquered the Philippines in 1565.
The volcano's eruption in June 1991 produced the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century.The 1991 eruption had a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) of 6, and came some 450-500 years after the volcano's last known eruptive activity (estimated as VEI 5, the level of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens), and some 500-1000 years after previous VEI 6 eruptive activity.Successful predictions of the onset of the climactic eruption led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from the surrounding areas, saving many lives, but surrounding areas were severely damaged by pyroclastic flows, ash deposits, and later by lahars caused by rainwater remobilizing earlier volcanic deposits: thousands of houses and other buildings were destroyed.The effects of the eruption were felt worldwide. It ejected roughly 10 billion metric tons of magma, and 20 million tons of SO2, bringing vast quantities of minerals and metals to the surface environment. It injected large amounts of aerosols into the stratosphere—more than any eruption since that of Krakatoa in 1883. Over the following months, the aerosols formed a global layer of sulfuric acid haze. Global temperatures dropped by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F), and ozone depletion temporarily

source: wikipedia

The SAHARA Desert Satellite view

The Sahara

is the world's largest hot desert, located in northern Africa. It stretches from the Red Sea to the Atlantic. The vast Sahara encompasses several ecologically distinct regions. The Sahara desert ecoregion covers an area of 4,619,260 km² (1,791,500 square miles) in the hot, hyper-arid center of the Sahara, surrounded on the north, south, east, and west by desert ecoregions with higher rainfall and more vegetation.

The Al-Dahna Desert

Al-Dahna Desert

IS the central division of the Arabian Desert. It is a corridor of sandy terrain that connects the large an-Nafud desert to the Rub' al-Khali.
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Dome Desert snow

Cold deserts

(also known as polar desert) have similar features but the main form of precipitation is snow rather than rain. Antarctica is the world's largest cold desert (composed of about 98 percent thick continental ice sheet and 2 percent barren rock). Some of the barren rock is to be found in the so-called Dry Valleys of Antarctica that almost never get snow, which can have ice-encrusted saline lakes that suggest evaporation far greater than the rare snowfall due to the strong katabatic winds that evaporate even ice.

The Agasthiyamalairange & Pirunelveli_rainshadow

Rain shadow deserts

Form when tall mountain ranges block clouds from reaching areas in the direction the wind is going. As the air moves over the mountains, it cools and moisture condenses, causing precipitation on the windward side. Moisture almost never reaches the leeward side of the mountain, resulting in a desert. When that air reaches the leeward side, the air is dry, because it has already lost the majority of its moisture. The air then warms, expands, and blows across the desert. The warm, desiccated air takes with it any remaining small amounts of moisture in the desert.

source: wikipedia

The MakhtesGadolCenter Desert

The Negev covers more than half of Israel, over some 13,000 km² (4,700 sq mi) or at least 55% of the country's land area. It forms an inverted triangle shape whose western side is contiguous with the desert of the Sinai Peninsula, and whose eastern border is the Arabah valley. The Negev has a number of interesting cultural and geological features. Among the latter are three enormous, craterlike makhteshim, which are unique to the region; Makhtesh Ramon, Makhtesh Gadol and Makhtesh Katan.
source: wikipedia

HELLO,
hello,
hello.

Few picture of mineral deposits like gold, silver, copper, nickel, limestone, marbles presented.
I will try to dig deeper in our backyard,
and will let you know , here.

see you..

ed

Nickel_briketts

Copper_ingot_crete

Silver

Marbles

GipsitaEZ

Limestone_cropping

Native_gold_nuggets

Geothermal power

(from Greek word's geo, meaning earth, and thermal meaning heat.) is energy generated by heat stored beneath the earth's surface or the collection of absorbed heat in the atmosphere and ocean. Prince Piero Ginori Conti tested the first geothermal generator on 4 July 1904, at the Larderello dry steam field in Italy. The largest group of geothermal power plants in the world is located in the Geysers,a geothermal field in California, as of 2007,geothermal power supplies less than 1% of the world's energy.

The Puhagan Geothermal Power Station
Negros Oriental, Philippines.

The Nesjavellir Geothermal Power Plant
Iceland

The Krafla Geothermal Station
Northeast Iceland

Nesjavellir Geothermal Power Plant

Puhagan Geothermal Plant

Krafla Geothermal station

Anacortes oil Refinery

HAIFA Oil Refinery

next soon..

The Birds shown
in this presentation
was a photoshots by a cellphone
taken from the book:

Reader's Digest
"BIRDS"

My AIM is simple,
it's TIMEOUT

Swallow-tailed kite (Elanoides forticatus)

Garnet pitta (pitta granatina)

Sparrowhawk (accipiter nisus)

isidor's eagle (Oroaetus isidori)

starling (sturnus bulgaris)

archaeopteryx (archaeopterygidae)

American bald eagle (haliaeetus-leucocephalus)

bateleur eagle (terathopius ecaudatus)

House sparrow (tasser domesticus)

pygmy seedsnipe (thinocorus rumicivorus)

king of saxony (pteridophora alberti)

Lapwing (vanellus vanellus)

helmetbird (aerocharis)

Hook-billed vanga (vanga curvirostris)

takahe (notornis mantelli)

Bluebird of paradise (paradisaea rudolphi)

giant hornbill (buceros bicornis)

Superb bird of paradise (lophorina superba)

laysan teal (anas laysanensis)

pallas'sandgrouse (syrrhaptes paradoxus)

wattled false sunbird (neodrepanis coruscans)

count raggi's bird of paradise (paradisaea raggiana)

Hope you like it.

a real photoshots soon.........

thank you.

ed

know about miami beach

name: "MIAMI" nickname: "THE BEACH"



Miami Beach is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The city was incorporated on 26 march 1915.Miami Beach has been one of America's pre-eminent beach resorts for almost a century. The city is often referred to under the umbrella of "miami," despite being a distinct , municipality making Miami and Miami Beach two separate cities. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 87,933. 55.5% of the population was foreign born. A 2005 population estimate for the city was 87,925

Miami Beach North

Colorful new building