![]() ![]() 3D diagram of Badlands Guardian topography, prepared by Lutz Perschon for CBC Radio.Photo of the Badlands Guardian taken from a paraglider.↑ PCWorld In Pictures: The Strangest Sights in Google Earth PC World Staff J1:00 am.1 2 Badlands Guardian: Satellite Imagery from Google Earth Written by Rosemarie McKeon Friday, 08 August 2008 15:38 through Web Archive. ![]() "Top 10 Google Earth Finds: A Face in the Clay". ↑ As It Happens 3D rendering by CBC Radio.1 2 CBC Radio: As It Happens "Alberta's Aztec Rocker?" (Includes taped interview with geology professor Dr.Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. It resembles a human head, wearing Native American headdress-and also appears to be naturally adorned with. The Badlands Guardian, for example, a natural geologic formation near Alberta, Canada, was often visited by online aviators. Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know. 1 2 Randall Stross (23 September 2008).1 2 3 4 Sydney Morning Herald Article by Stephen Hutcheon: "Gran's canyon is a net sensation" November 13, 2006.Pareidolia, the phenomena of perceiving faces in random patterns.Old Man of Hoy, a rock pillar off Scotland that resembles a standing man.Old Man of the Mountain, (former) rock profile in New Hampshire (collapsed on May 3, 2003).Marcahuasi, a plateau in the Andes, near Lima, Peru with numerous rock formations with surprising likenesses to specific animals, people, and religious symbols.Inuksuk, traditional Native Arctic peoples' stone "marker statuaries" in Alaska and Arctic Canada.'Face on Mars', photographed by Viking 1 in 1976.It is listed as the seventh of the top ten Google Earth finds by Time Magazine. The Guardian was also covered by Canada's Global Television. PCWorld magazine has referred to the formation as a "geological marvel". The Badlands Guardian was also described by the Sydney Morning Herald as a "net sensation". They altered the suggested 'Guardian of the Badlands' to become Badlands Guardian. Out of 50 names submitted, seven were suggested to the Cypress County Council. Suitable names were canvassed by CBC Radio One program As It Happens. The feature was originally discovered by Lynn Hickox while examining images on the Google Earth application in November 2006. It was the winner of the RTNDA National TV short feature award for that year. In 2006 Medicine Hat's CHAT-TV Reporter Dale Hunter did a short feature on the Badlands Guardian. Its age is estimated to be in the hundreds of years at a minimum. Although the image appears to be a convex feature, it is actually concave – that is, a valley, which is formed by erosion on a stratum of clay, and is an instance of the Hollow-Face illusion. The 'head' may have been created during a short period of fast erosion immediately following intense rainfall. The arid badlands are typified by infrequent but intense rain-showers, sparse vegetation and soft sediments. The head is a drainage feature created through erosion of soft, clay-rich soil by the action of wind and water. Its scale is much larger than the figures of Mount Rushmore. The apparent earphones are a road and an oil well, which were installed recently and are expected to disappear once the project is abandoned. ![]() Because of additional man-made structures, it also appears to be wearing earphones. Viewed from the air, the feature bears a strong resemblance to a human head wearing a full Aboriginal Canadian headdress, facing directly westward. The Badlands Guardian (also known as Indian Head) is a geomorphological feature located near Medicine Hat in the south east corner of Alberta, Canada. ![]()
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