"blacklight" wrote in message
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On Nov 7, 2:09 pm, "Gerrit" wrote:
"blacklight" wrote in message

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The Pinnacles Desert in Australia’s Nambung National Park. Is an eerie
field of tombstones. A fairly recent change of climate made it. See a
great little clip of it at
http://www.oz-greetings.com.au/video/preview/55.
There is an article about these eye-catchers at
http://www.oz-greetings.com.au/geolo...INNACLES-DESER....
Cheers - Klaus and Rusty (the dog).

I suspect you haven't read your own website and are just jumping on the
climate change bandwagon.
Here is an excerpt from the website of the West Australian Department of
Environment and
Conservation:http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/hotproperty...parks/nambung-...

"Although the formation of the Pinnacles would have taken many thousands
of
years, they were probably only exposed in quite recent times. Aboriginal
artefacts at least 6,000 years old have been found in the Pinnacles
Desert
despite no recent evidence of Aboriginal occupation. This tends to
suggest
that the Pinnacles were exposed about 6,000 years ago and then covered up
by
shifting sands, before being exposed again in the last few hundred years.
This process can be seen in action today - with the predominantly
southerly
winds uncovering pinnacles in the northern part of the Pinnacles Desert
but
covering those in the south. Over time, the limestone spires will no
doubt
be covered again by other sand drifts and the cycle repeated, creating
weird
and wonderful shapes over and over again."

Or are you just pushing your own website?
But then you should quote it correctly.

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Hi Gerrit - you are wrong. The Pinnacles exist because the climate
changed to ice age conditions. That freed sand off the sea floor and
into dunes. A climate change to warmer than acted on those dunes
accordingly - and formed Pinnacles.
Greetings to you - Klaus

Hi Klaus

Don't really want to get into a slanging match so will keep it to just this
once more.

You wrote: "A fairly recent change of climate made it."
The DEC website says: "the formation of the Pinnacles would have taken many
thousands of years"
Your website says something similar.

Neither website actually talks about climate change - which in the present
day has the meaning of human caused change in the climate and which until
very recently was always called global warming.

Gerrit