Sandstone Pillars, Sahara Desert, Chad, 1999

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Posted in Images on June 15th, 2008 by egosumnemo | Report This Post |

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Photograph by George Steinmetz

Spires of eroded sandstone stand like ancient pillars in the red dunes of Chad’s Karnasai Valley in the central Sahara desert. Fierce winds, punishing sandstorms, and occasional douses of rain are slowly turning these rock formations back into the sand from which they were made.

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3 Responses to Sandstone Pillars, Sahara Desert, Chad, 1999

storminator (UID# 2681) 0 0
June 15, 2008 at 2:15 pm

Native Americans call these formations: HOODOOS.

(yes, I know the photo isn’t in America- but we have the same type of erosion spires in Bryce Nat Pk and elsewhere…)

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natedog (UID# 1905) 0 0
June 15, 2008 at 2:16 pm

one on the far left looks like a tree

maybe it’s a petrified forest

or maybe the sand is a living indestructible thing with malicious intent and the power to turn you into sand and when you become sand you crumble and are forced to exist as part of a living evil sand dune and your soul goes into the mix with all the other poor lost devoured souls whose RAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGEE and despair and general melancholy power the unstoppable menace until the world has been consumed

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nyoki (UID# 3444) 0 0
June 15, 2008 at 7:19 pm

@natedog
YEAAAAAAAAAAH!

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