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| Thread ID: 146524 | 2018-08-24 05:14:00 | Ruapehu peeks through | Jayess64 (8703) | PC World Chat |
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| 1453099 | 2018-08-27 23:23:00 | With grazing dinosaurs? No it wasn’t that long ago . It was back in the ‘60’s, courtesy of Rukuhia Soil Research, who made up, or had made up, some special fertiliser and top dressed one side of the road . The natural soil there is short of a number of elements and as I recall Cobalt was one of the main ones . Anyway, it wasn’t persevered with because there was an abundance of fertile land elsewhere and the fertiliser didn’t come cheap . All of which was caused by Global Warming . :devil |
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| 1453100 | 2018-08-28 02:09:00 | Nope, not warming at all . . wikipedia . org/wiki/Rangipo_Desert" target="_blank">en . wikipedia . org The Rangipo Desert receives 1,500–2,500 mm of rainfall per year, but resembles a desert because of a poor soil quality and drying winds, and also due to the mass sterilization of seeds during a series of violent eruptions, particularly ignimbrite flows about 20,000 years ago . Much of this distinctive and unprofitable substrate has been carried down from the summit of Ruapehu by lahars (mud slides) . The shape of the upper cone of the mountain means that the face adjoining Rangipo Desert is much more prone to this sort of devastation than other slopes are . From below, gravity sucks the water away through the porous debris . From above, the strong winds which bring moisture one day carry it off by evaporation the next . The soil can offer only limited resistance to these two relentless forces, and, along with scorching summer heat, becomes bone-dry for much of the year . You have 5 free articles remaining this month . Subscribe to New Zealand Geographic The area is frequently lashed by wind . Funnelled by the mountains, the prevailing north-westerlies whistle across the desert, while southerlies roaring up between the Kaimanawa Mountains and Ruapehu also touch the landscape with their chill fury . . nzgeo . com/stories/beyond-the-desert-road/" target="_blank">www . nzgeo . com |
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| 1453101 | 2018-08-29 10:02:00 | Crikey! All this erudition - all I did was take a picture. | Jayess64 (8703) | ||
| 1453102 | 2018-08-29 20:23:00 | Crikey! All this erudition - all I did was take a picture. Yes, and the Mountain is very upset. HERE (www.stuff.co.nz) |
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| 1453103 | 2018-08-31 11:29:00 | I went to moawhango dam to do a job and picked up some papa stones on the way back to the main road, they have a lot of sea-shells embedded in. | Whenu (9358) | ||
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