23 February 2018

Friday fold: some Google Earth views of Namibia

Posted by Callan Bentley

In preparing last week’s Friday fold, I did some browsing around in Google Earth in northwestern Namibia, at the intersection between the Kaoko and Damara deformational belts. Man, it’s incredible there. Check out some of the folds you can see from space:

…zooming in:

Another site:

…zooming in:

… and zooming in some more; Really, this is just spectacular:

Check it out for yourself on Google Maps. Happy Friday to you!