24 April 2012

Arborized

Rivers forming tree-like figures on the desert of Baja California, Mexico. Photo and caption by Adriana Franco.

From a photo gallery at National Geographic.

1 comment:

  1. AnonymousApril 24, 2012 at 4:19 PM

    It's called, unsurprisingly, dendritic drainage by geologists/geomorphologists, suggesting the underlying rocks are relatively flat lying or homogeneous.

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