The barnacle
Interesting land-form I photographed in Namibia called the barnacle or witches hat.
It's the truncated end of a heavily contorted mountain range that has been sliced through by the Orange river.
It also marks the start of the Richtersveld, a mountainous desert landscape that is also the only Arid biodiversity hotspot and has portions of it proclaimed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In the barnacle you can see heavily folded layers that were originally flat layers of sand. They were hardened to quatzite and compressed from the sides to form the drastic zig-zag patterns.
Richtersveld seems like a European, perhaps German or Dutch name. Maybe I am wrong, but that was my first impression.
The details according to Wikipedia...
Even today there is still a sizable German population and influence.
Cool to know, thanks!
Hello my friend ... This mountain is beautiful .... Have you climbed this mountain before? Because the mountains are 40 km away from home and I love mountain climbing ... but it 's very difficult
how altitude this mountain @mars9 and @gavvet ?
This feature is only 30 meters high from where I took the picture but the area has peaks 500m above sea level
nice peaks, but it looks very difficult to climb to the peak
Now I want to see gavvet climbing this mountain!
I rather climbed the one next to it to get a better view...
My friend ... I agree with you
Very nice, when I heard it was under the auspices of UNESCO. Here, there are a lot of heritage and nice places, but still cared for by the community, UNESCO has not arrived yet. Cool @gavvet
It's beautiful
Resteem
Interesting landscape, impressive ...
I really want to visit Namibia & see the desert, it have some good scenery!
Worthy of being a world heritage site.
Nice pict.
Exchellent post dear @gavvet!!
Thank you again for the good and hard work..._))
An interesting shots! Thank you for sharing!
Good job