Dendritic Channels

[MGmirkin]

(Dendritic Channels; Mar 24, 2008)

These large-scale structures are amazingly similar, yet one is located in the driest desert and the other is an ocean inlet. What could create these features in such disparate environments?

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[MGmirkin]

One might be tempted to point out a comparison I had made once upon a time (on "Thunderbolts forum 1.0") between Lightenberg figures and a region in the Saudi Arabian desert:


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Lichtenberg figures (Technical description)

While perhaps not definitive, it is certainly "suggestive." If nothing else it perhaps requires asking "which came first, the water or the channels?" IE, did water (exclusively) do the eroding, or does it now simply flow through convenient tracks left by prior catastrophic events that scarred the landscape?

Cheers,
~Michael Gmirkin

[MGmirkin]

While also not definitive, the region around Koes, Namibia also displays a massive field of point-centered dendritic systems not unlike the "Martian spiders" covered in prior TPODs (1, 2, 3). Though there also seems to be an odd parallelism / alignment in the Koes features that is also interesting.

(Koes, Namibia)

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(The region surrounding Koes, Namibia; a closer view)


(A "Martian spider")

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_003443_0980

(A Lichtenberg figure captured in acrylic)

Image courtesy of http://www.teslamania.com

Cheers,
~Michael Gmirkin